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What People Are Saying About John Wooden...

When I think of John Wooden, I think of principles, discipline and organization.

Phil Jackson Los Angeles Lakers coach

My favorite coach of all time is John Wooden, without question. I think he was a guy that coached the best way of anybody that I have ever heard talk about the game.

Steve Spurrier head football coach, University of South Carolina

I admire Coach Wooden so greatly because of his core of integrity which leads to an honest, straightforward life. He has always thought about the purpose of his life, knew what he believed and then proceeded with that in mind.

Bill Bradley former basketball Olympian and U.S. Senator

John Wooden set his rules and enforced them rigidly. There was no question about who was in charge. If you didnt live by Woodens rules, it was see ya. Kids ended up doing it Johns way and not even know it was happening.

Keith Jackson ABC-TV sports announcer

He was a rare person who deserved the praise of greatness, but Coach Wooden also was a man of goodness. Thats a rare combination that very few people attaingreatness and goodness. John Wooden is Gods closest creation to the perfect man. Next to my Dad, John Wooden was the greatest influence in my life.

Dick Enberg TV sports announcer

Twenty-nine years have passed since I left UCLA and it amazes me how smart Coach Wooden has become in those 29 years. Im 50 years old now. We thought he was nuts. He was a walking antique. It wasnt until adversity hit us that I realized he was right.

Bill Walton former UCLA player and basketball legend

John Wooden is a man of integrity and has always remained true to what he believes. He coached at a different time, but has never abandoned his life values.

Bob Costas TV sports announcer

Coach Wooden believed in treating people with respect and he got respect back. He was a humble man who had great pride, but it never went to his head.

Dick Vitale basketball TV personality

Very few people are great, but John Wooden is a superstar. Part of it is his accomplishments and the way he did it which commands peoples respect. Years from now people will ask, How did Coach ever accomplish that? He is a unique man.

Jerry West president and general manager, Memphis Grizzlies

I admire Coach Wooden for the way he lived his life. He had a strong moral compass and had his priorities in order. Then he lived them out on a consistent basis.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar former UCLA player and basketball legend

John Wooden has morals, ethics and spiritual beliefs and as a result, he sees what life is really all about. Because John is so personable he makes you feel comfortable in his presence.

Lute Olson head basketball coach, University of Arizona

Coach didnt just make up his pyramid. He is the pyramid. He believes those lessons, teaches them and lives them. John Wooden is an honest, sincere, competent man.

Pat Riley president and coach, Miami Heat

John Wooden is the greatest coach of all time in any sport. He had the ability to teach, his values were strong and he knew how to get inside the heads of his players.

Marv Levy former head coach, Buffalo Bills

At his age, Coach is still living every day to the utmost. Thats what all of us should do.

Baron Davis NBA All-Star

With Coach Wooden, its not about the records. It was always about his people and getting them to do the best they were capable of doing. The feeling his former players have for him is truly amazing.

Roy Williams head basketball coach, University of North Carolina

Coach Wooden gives you insights about humanity. At a time in history where we have so much noise, anger, hate and disenchantment, we need more John Woodens.

Howard Schultz CEO, Starbucks Coffee Company

I dedicate this book with love, respect and admiration to John and Nell Wooden and their familyespecially their two children, Nancy and Jim, their seven grandchildren, and thirteen great-grandchildren. What a legacy the Wooden clan has left for all of us to model. May this book inspire you to live your life to the fullest and become all you are capable of becoming.

Foreword

By Bill Walton Former UCLA & NBA Superstar

ANOTHER JOHN WOODEN BOOK? The man is ninety-five years old, has been retired for more than thirty years and has had so many books, movies and projects done about him that you have to wonder what more could possibly be said. At least thats what I thought when I learned that Pat Williams was turning his attention to Coach Wooden as the seventh subject in his How to Be Like series about significant people who deserve to have their stories told.

While John Wooden certainly is a worthy candidate for Pat Williamss unrelenting passion for spreading good news and hope, one must be aware that many of Coach Woodens former players and the sportswriters who regularly covered his teams have already taken their turn at trying to recreate the brilliance of this master teacher. All of this is in addition to the seemingly endless stream of books that Coach Wooden has written himself. Ive read them all and have written introductions for most of them.

So what makes this book different and therefore worthy of your time and mine, particularly because Pat never met The Coach until 2001?

I have read and studied the life and times of Pat Williams since I first met him while I was attending UCLA, playing for Coach Wooden on a team that set standards that have stood the test of time, just like Pat and Coach. This book is clearly the best of the best, as Pat has taken his craft to the highest level. While Pat has certainly taken on daunting tasks before, this current masterpiece has consumed his life. As Pat started this book, more than four years and at least eight hundred interviews ago, he, like the rest of us who have hitched a ride on Coach Woodens bus, had no idea what he was getting into.

Pat Williams is a man who for decades has perfectly embodied all the human characteristics and personal attributes that are the guiding principles of Coach Woodens lifeand none more so than the cornerstones of the Pyramid of Success: industriousness and enthusiasm. But the more work Pat did on How to Be Like Coach Woodenfrom the trips to Martinsville, Indiana, where he spent a day in Poes Cafeteria with more than fifty of Coachs hometown friends, to VIPs Restaurant in Los Angeles where Coach eats breakfast every day, to the visits with the two living teammates of Coach Purdues teams, to the time spent with the two surviving members of Coach Woodens first-ever team under his supervision (Kentuckys Dayton High School)the more he realized all that was still left undone.

John Wooden is an intergalactic treasure who has selflessly lived his life for the betterment of others. The same can be said about Pat Williams. This collaboration between two of the most dynamic and creative forces that I have ever encountered has resulted in a unique trip through the heart, soul and mind of The Coach, a man I thought I knew until I read Pats book. This is the first book about The Coach from the outside, and it provides an incredible amount of never-before-told information about a truly remarkable human being.

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