John Wooden
Overview
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
player and coach. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood", he won ten NCAA
National Collegiate Athletic Association
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national championships in a 12-year period — seven in a row — as head coach at UCLA
UCLA Bruins men's basketball
The UCLA Bruins men's basketball program, established in 1920, owns a record 11 Division I NCAA championships. UCLA teams coached by John Wooden won 10 national titles in 12 seasons from 1964 to 1975, including 7 straight from 1967 to 1973. UCLA went undefeated a record 4 times, in 1964, 1967,...
, an unprecedented feat. Within this period, his teams won a record 88 consecutive games. He was named national coach of the year six times.
As a player, Wooden was the first to be named basketball All-American three times and he won a national championship at Purdue.
Quotations
Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow 
They Call Me Coach, John Wooden, 1988
The main ingredient of stardom, is the rest of the team.
They Call Me Coach
Young people need models, not critics.
They Call Me Coach
Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-give; be careful.
They Call Me Coach
Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.