I'm going to show you how great I am.

Yes, let's have mighty power.

I just want to say from the bottom of me heart, I'd like to take this chance to

apologize to absolutely nobody.

Hello, and welcome to Take Over the World. This is Ben Wilson. Today we are talking about the American basketball coach John Wooden. John Wooden is one of the greatest coaches of all time

in any sport. In fact, if you go look up a list of greatest coaches or greatest American coaches

of all time,

John Wooden is usually number one, and if not, he's almost always in the top two or three.

In his career, he won 10 national championships.

He had four perfect seasons, 30 and 0, zero losses, and he established the longest winning streak of all time at 88 games.

So just any way you slice it, he was one of the greatest and most winning coaches ever. And yet for all of that, he always saw himself not primarily as a coach,

but as a teacher. He's known for his teaching methods, his aphorisms, the principles that he

used to lead his teams. He spawned a minor industry of John Wooden books, seminars, and such. In fact,

the first leadership book I ever read was a John Wooden books, seminars, and such. In fact, the first

leadership book I ever read was a John Wooden book back in middle school. And because he made

such a science out of his teaching and getting the most out of his players, he's a great

person to read about. He's sort of the Benjamin Franklin of sports coaching. His principles are laid out

very clearly and are easy to observe and emulate. But as John Wooden says, people usually know

what they should do to get what they want. They just won't do it. They won't pay the price.

Understand there is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance. You must be

willing to pay the price. And that's one of the reasons I'm glad that I read Wooden's biography

for this episode. I almost just did his leadership

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