Wooden: A Coach's Life Author: Seth Davis | Language: English | ISBN:
B00E719068 | Format: EPUB
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A provocative and revelatory new biography of the legendary UCLA coach John Wooden, by one of America’s top college basketball writers
No college basketball coach has ever dominated the sport like John Wooden. His UCLA teams reached unprecedented heights in the 1960s and ’70s capped by a run of ten NCAA championships in twelve seasons and an eighty-eight-game winning streak, records that stand to this day. Wooden also became a renowned motivational speaker and writer, revered for his “Pyramid of Success.”
Seth Davis of Sports Illustrated and CBS Sports has written the definitive biography of Wooden, an unflinching portrait that draws on archival research and more than two hundred interviews with players, opponents, coaches, and even Wooden himself. Davis shows how hard Wooden strove for success, from his All-American playing days at Purdue through his early years as a high school and college coach to the glory days at UCLA, only to discover that reaching new heights brought new burdens and frustrations. Davis also reveals how at the pinnacle of his career Wooden found himself on questionable ground with alumni, referees, assistants, and even some of his players. His was a life not only of lessons taught, but also of lessons learned.
Woven into the story as well are the players who powered Wooden’s championship teams – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton, Walt Hazzard, and others – many of whom speak frankly about their coach. The portrait that emerges from Davis’s remarkable biography is of a man in full, whose life story still resonates today.
- File Size: 1834 KB
- Print Length: 608 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0805092803
- Publisher: Times Books (January 14, 2014)
- Sold by: Macmillan
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00E719068
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Title: Wooden: A Coach’s Life
Author: Seth Davis
Publisher: Henry Hold and Company / Times Books
ISBN: 978-0-8050-9280-6
“He was, in short, a hard-to-please, detail-obsessed, hyper-organized taskmaster and control freak – which made it all the more jarring when he adopted a hands-off approach during games,” Seth Davis writes in his book about John Wooden, "Wooden: A Coach’s Life."
At six hundred and eight pages, this biography based on the legendary UCLA basketball coach would be enjoyed by enthusiasts, educators, and historians of the sport. Divided into four annual seasons that cover thirty-five chapters, those who loved, played for, coached against, and resented him reminisce about the iconic figure. With some profanity (mostly quoted), included are eight pages of black and white photographs, his coaching record, over thirty pages of notes, acknowledgments, and a thorough index.
Senior writer for Sports Illustrated, Davis spent more than four years compiling and gleaning public and personal information on the positive and negative side of Wooden, the “Wizard of Westwood” who led his team to ten NCAA titles and a record eighty-eight game winning streak beginning in the nineteen sixties.
Starting from the determined, self-disciplined child raised by strict Christian parents on their sixty-acre Indiana farm, young Wooden wanted to be a civil engineer. Learning balance in life through a new sport called basket ball, he grew up during the Depression, played at Purdue, became a US Navy lieutenant, and incurred a back injury, changing his vocational path to teaching English at the high school level.
First off I would like to say that John Wooden is a highly sought after figure when it comes to Leadership, Success, Championships and Basketball. But did you know that John Wooden was a teacher, and he had a deep passion for teaching? Did you know that Coach had a deep love for the sport of Baseball? In this book we learn that Coach Wooden was not just a coach of basketball, but a teacher in the whole scheme of life--WE "the reader" will be introduced to what the word success is--it is not championships, it is not all the awards, it is not all the hoopla generated; media, t.v.,radio, magazines, interviews. It is what we do for others, it is making our own lives better, it is challenging society too do more, give more, plan, execute, lead by example. In this book by Seth Davis I learned that at an early age in coaches youthfulness it was about Woodens commitment to family, God and of course his wife--basketball was second. In this piece I learned a ton from coach on what success is, it is a up and down and sideways line when it is all said and done. Seth Davis did a huge justice to the life of a teacher, husband, leader and icon. The author who knows his basketball, dug really deep in his multiple interviews with coach--looking for something new too shed light on--Indiana, Kentucky, California, US Navy, Teaching; all of these were toll booths in coaches life and I feel in this biography Seth Davis clearly shares with us "the reader" that coach had to change his ways, his thinking and his thought process as he matured and aged into a basketball legend. The book is a winner,and I recommend reading about his life.
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