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Lessons From the Court                                                                          March 26,  2014
 
Tim Moore
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 Late March: too late to be winter, too early to be spring. It's a dead-center kind of time were it not for Basketball. Around now many sports aficionados reel back in time, to a place where coaches were honored as much for their conduct off the floor as they were for their presence during a game. When asked about his revered status as "the definitive coach of his time" Wooden answered, "I'm just a common man who is true to his beliefs." Coach Wooden was also UCLA's icon-of-understatement. He won ten national championships in twelve years with the Bruins. Still, he remains the benchmark of all collegiate basketball coaches, sharing his elite fraternity with but a handful of celebrated contemporary coaches.

 

This week's column humbly offers six of life's puzzles from The Wizard of Westwood.

 

  • Why is it easier to criticize than to compliment?
  • Why is it easier to hand others blame, than to give them credit?
  • Why is it so many who are quick to make suggestions, find it so difficult to make decisions?
  • Why can't we realize that it only weakens those we want to help when we do things for them they should be doing for themselves?
  • Why is it so much easier to allow emotions rather than reason to control our decisions?
  • Why does the person with the least to say, usually take the longest to say it?

Looking back on his life of eight-plus decades, Coach Wooden's credo harkens back to what he called "Dad's Code," which he once shared with sports columnist Steve Jamison:

 

I am not what I ought to be,

            Not what I want to be,

            Not what I am going to be,

            But I am thankful that

            I am better than I used to be.

 

"I can't do it" never accomplished anything. "I'll try" has accomplished miracles.

 

Seminars, graduate courses, motivational speakers, and inspirational columns cannot offer thoughts, words, or deeds, to embellish or trump the remarkable common sense of a basketball coach who won ten national championships while winning-over hundreds of college players who passed through his doorway on their way to life.

 

Good calls coach. 

 

Sincerely,

Tim Moore

Tim Moore

Managing Partner 

Audience Development Group

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