All of this was done in the subtlest of ways. While our practices were the most demanding
endeavors that I’ve ever been a part of – so physically, emotionally, mentally,
and psychologically taxing – there was always the sense of joy, of celebration,
and of people having fun playing a simple game.
Always positive, always constructive, John Wooden drove us in ways and
directions that we are not aware of, always with the goal of making us
better. It is never about him, never
about the struggle for material accumulation, but always about individual skill
and personal development within the framework of the team, the game, and
UCLA.
Our practices, our lives are
constantly structured around the four laws of learning: demonstration,
imitation, correction, and repetition.
And repeat we do – everything, every day, until we have become John
Wooden ourselves.
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