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NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“I’m only a not unusual guy who is correct to his ideals.”–John Wood

Evoking days long gone via whilst coaches had been revered as so much for his or her off-court docket performances as for his or her luck at the court docket, Wooden gifts the undying knowledge of mythical basketball Train John Wood.

In truthful and telling passages approximately just about each and every facet of existence, Train stocks his non-public philosophy on circle of relatives, success, luck, and excellence. Raised on a small farm in south-vital Indiana, he provides courses and knowledge discovered all over his profession at UCLA, and existence as a devoted husband, father, and trainer.

These courses, in conjunction with non-public letters from Invoice Walton, Denny Crum, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Bob Costas, amongst others, have made Wooden: A Life of Observations and Reflections off and on the Court an inspirational vintage.

Train Wood’s exceptional 10 nationwide basketball championships in 12 years at UCLA discuss for themselves. In Wooden, the Train–quiet, considerate, and introspective all over his outstanding profession–in spite of everything speaks forhimself, and he is smartly price listening to. Wooden is a brand new chapbook of suggestion and just right experience that finds the laborious-court docket thinker in the back of it as a person of personality, conviction, decency, and ease. There are not any complicated concepts, simply little beams of sunshine filtered thru anecdotes that mission the forms of easy, immutable truths that after all contact not anything however web.