Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Student Success Person;- John Wooden
"What you are as a person is far more important that who you are as a basketball player." -John Wooden
The significance of this quote in John Wooden's case was about pride. When John Wooden said how it is much more important to have good character than to have good basketball skills. There are many NBA players that practice both of these qualities. One example is Blake Griffin, for every time he dunks, he donates 100$ to childhood obesity. Overall, John Wooden was trying to send a message to all basketball players, college, amateur, professional. He wanted to send the message that it matters more to be a good person than basketball player. This may have affected someone that was doing not good things to become a good basketball player, such as taking performance enhancing drugs, cheating, or just being a bad person in general. They may have been affected when they heard this because they realize they are not CTR and they could think of John Wooden as a leader or hero so they may start choosing the right. An example of how this affected them might have been his players. His team won 88 games in a row, this could be influenced by their skill, but a majority of this most likely came from John Wooden and him being proud of his team no matter what, win or loss.
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