John Wooden has widely been regarded as the best college basketball coach in history.
He was the first person ever to be enshrined in The Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach and his 10 NCAA championships at UCLA have never been matched.
His players have said that they don't recall Coach Wooden ever stressing the importance of winning a game.
For him, it was about sticking to the fundamentals.
On the first day of practice at the beginning of a new season he would say to his players that he wasn't going to talk to them about winning or losing because that was a by-product of preparation.
He preferred to focus on the process of having them become the best team they were capable of becoming.
Coach Wooden was one of the most successful and respected coaches ever because he emphasized that true success in life lies in personal responsibility, integrity and hard work.
He stressed that being prepared and being the best that you could be was the ultimate goal. It was no coincidence that winning happened to be the by-product.
"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming," Coach Wooden.
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