Rating: Summary: WOODEN IS WONDERFUL! Review: Coach Wooden and Steve Jamison have won another national championship with this book! It is a totally readable guide on to how to live a positive, productive, and fulfilling life. Read this first, THEN get Book of Virtues! Mason Grigsby San Francisco, CA
Rating: Summary: A reference book for the everyday competion of Life! Review: I grew up during UCLA's dominance of college basketball and admired Coach Wooden from the beginning. This book offers insights commonly forgotten by today's hectic lifestyles and values. It points out how honesty, integrity, discipline and hard work can lead to a lifetime of fullfilment; not arrogance, but humility. The principles and experiences detailed in this book can help a willing soul in maximizing potential in LIFE. I plan on teaching my children these values.
Rating: Summary: Every parent of every athlete needs to read this book. Review: As a consultant to athletes and parents, I work on the mental aspects of performance enhancement. This book may be about basketball, but it speaks to the essential balance necessary for success in athletics and life. Coach Wooden explains his secrets in tidy little nuggets that make reading easy. Get this book. Read this book. Use this book. Your child will be forever thankful.
Rating: Summary: A primer on how to succeed in life as well as sports. Review: Coach Wooden and Steve Jamison have produced a gem! America's greatest championship coach reveals his principles of performance, success,and peace of min both on and off the court.Inspirational, motivational, and soulful, it reveals the code of ethics that made America great!
Rating: Summary: Balance Review: A sense of "balance" is what I appreciate most about John Wooden. Integrity, intellect, and sense of purpose is what drove me to read the book!!
Rating: Summary: A must read for business executives Review: This book is must reading for anyone in a leadership position in business. With thousands of titles on leadership, motivation and how to succeed in business, it takes a former basketball coach and teacher to articulate how to be an effective leader.
Rating: Summary: Not a sports book Review: This is not a sports book. It is much more--it's Coach Wooden's philosophy of life. An excellent book. I highly recommend it.
Rating: Summary: Fantastic...just fantastic Review: Just a few fundamentals of life such as character and integrity, which are sorely lacking in our society today.
Rating: Summary: A Coach's and Parent's Must Review: The philsophies of Coach Wooden are laid out in short & simple pieces. It's easy to see how this great man won so many championships and helped create so many wonderful athletes. My high school volleyball team read from this book daily and found themselves finishing 3rd in the state of California!!!
Rating: Summary: Finally, a coaching philosophy instead of just personality Review: I enjoyed the book since it dealt with the foundations of coaching, unshakable values and unrelenting hard work. If luck occurs when preparation meets with opportunity, then Coach Wooden demonstrates how to be lucky better than anyone. Thanks to Coach consenting to this book, a twenty-something reader like myself can share in the wisdom learned several generations ago.
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