[ti:How the Great Coach John Wooden Defined Success]
[ar:Jim Tedder]
[al:Education Report]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is the VOA Special English
[00:02.92]Education Report.
[00:04.98]John Wooden died last Friday
[00:07.84]at the age of ninety-nine.
[00:09.95]He was one of the greatest
[00:12.07]twentieth-century Americans in sports.
[00:15.49]He was an excellent college
[00:18.04]basketball player.
[00:19.34]He led Purdue University
[00:21.83]to a national championship
[00:24.07]in nineteen thirty-two.
[00:25.75]After college he was
[00:27.93]a high school coach.
[00:29.30]He also taught English for nine years.
[00:32.72]But where he really made his mark
[00:35.58]was at the University
[00:37.14]of California, Los Angeles.
[00:39.50]He was head coach of men's basketball
[00:42.80]for twenty-seven years.
[00:45.22]His teams won a record
[00:47.71]ten national championships.
[00:49.82]These included seven in a row
[00:53.06]during the late nineteen sixties
[00:55.98]and early seventies.
[00:57.41]The Bruins have won just
[00:59.84]one other championship since then.
[01:02.39]An announcer described him
[01:05.30]in nineteen seventy-five
[01:06.73]after his final championship victory,
[01:09.72]which was also his final game.
[01:12.58]ANNOUNCER: "As Wooden enters the playing court,
[01:14.19]he receives a standing ovation
[01:15.81]from an overflow crowd and true
[01:18.11]to the Wooden tradition,
[01:19.36]on the outside everything appears calm."
[01:21.85]He coached famous players
[01:23.90]like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,
[01:26.20]known then as Lew Alcindor,
[01:28.94]and Bill Walton.
[01:31.18]Several years ago,
[01:32.86]Kareem Abdul-Jabbar spoke
[01:35.16]at a ceremony honoring John Wooden.
[01:37.71]He said many top athletes
[01:40.82]worry they will be exploited
[01:43.00]for their skills by their coach.
[01:45.30]KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR: "That never,
[01:46.10]ever had a possibility of happening
[01:48.28]in my experience at U.C.L.A.
[01:51.46]because of this man here.
[01:52.57]He really wanted myself
[01:56.12]and all of us who participated
[01:57.74]in the program to get our degrees
[01:59.85]and learn what it meant
[02:01.97]to be a good citizen,
[02:02.90]and to be good parents and husbands
[02:05.45]and responsible human beings.
[02:07.81]And that was the most
[02:09.37]important thing for him."
[02:10.80]John Wooden was praised
[02:12.29]for how he taught the basics
[02:13.85]of the game, like passing,
[02:15.65]defense and moving without the ball.
[02:18.62]But he also offered life lessons
[02:21.80]as a speaker and author.
[02:23.85]His books included the self-improvement
[02:27.15]guide "Pyramid of Success."
[02:29.51]At a speaking event when he was
[02:32.43]already in his nineties,
[02:34.11]he explained that his father
[02:35.98]had taught him a few things about success.
[02:39.59]JOHN WOODEN: "I was raised on a small farm
[02:41.14]in southern Indiana and Dad tried
[02:43.01]to teach me and my brothers
[02:44.19]that you should never try
[02:45.43]to be better than someone else.
[02:47.18]Always learn from others
[02:50.18]and never cease trying to be
[02:51.87]the best you could be.
[02:52.24]That's under your control."
[02:53.68]Those words later helped him
[02:55.60]with his own definition of success.
[02:58.34]JOHN WOODEN: "Peace of mind attained
[03:00.33]only through self-satisfaction
[03:01.82]and knowing you made the effort
[03:03.75]to do the best of which you are capable.
[03:05.56]I believe that is true.
[03:06.74]If you make the effort to do the best
[03:08.67]of what you are capable,
[03:09.78]trying to improve the situation
[03:10.97]that exists for you,
[03:12.58]I think that is success and I do not
[03:14.39]think others can judge that."
[03:15.63]His wife of fifty-three years, Nell,
[03:18.18]died in nineteen eighty-five.
[03:20.67]At U.C.L.A. the man known simply
[03:24.40]as "Coach" had a record
[03:26.46]of six hundred twenty wins
[03:28.26]and one hundred forty-seven losses.
[03:30.81]Current coach Ben Howland calls
[03:34.54]John Wooden "the greatest coach
[03:36.53]in the history of basketball."
[03:38.90]And that's the VOA Special English
[03:41.94]Education Report, with reporting
[03:44.56]by Nico Colombant and Jim Stevenson.
[03:48.51]You can read and listen to
[03:50.38]our reports at 51voa.com.
[03:54.98]I'm Jim Tedder.
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