by Craig Impelman | Mar 14, 2019 | Blog
If you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing. Coach taught his players how to deal with criticism by breaking it down into two types: criticism they would receive from him and the coaching staff, and criticism they would receive from sources outside of...
by Craig Impelman | Mar 13, 2019 | Blog
Coach Wooden thought the most important word in our language was love, and the second most important was balance: We must keep things in perspective. Balance is keeping things in perspective. Don’t get carried away if things are going too well or too poorly. Don’t get...
by Craig Impelman | Mar 6, 2019 | Blog
Love as an action has many dimensions. One is being nice to people even if they are not being nice to you. This sentence is a summary of Coach John Wooden’s philosophy and how he lived his life. The most important thing I learned from his example was to respond with...
by Craig Impelman | Feb 27, 2019 | Blog
You’ll never know a thing that you didn’t learn from someone else. Coach John Wooden attributed this quote to his father, and it became a core fundamental in his approach to life. Coach Wooden embodied certain important characteristics, which are found in many...
by Craig Impelman | Feb 20, 2019 | Blog
@evergreen_souls via Twenty20 These quotes are the foundation of Coach John Wooden’s approach to discipline: Discipline must be done with reason to be effective. If we lose reason in our discipline, it will not be effective. You cannot antagonize and be a positive...
