Wooden: A Coach's Life
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“I do see a difference—a great difference—in the amount of time that has to be spent on recruiting”: “Cunningham: 33⅓ Coach in a Profession of 78s,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 16, 1979.
“My time at UCLA was very rewarding, but the job was not always fun”: “Wise in the Ways of the Wizard,” Sports Illustrated, Nov. 30, 1981.
“They were out of balance”: “Anybody’s Game,” Washington Post, Feb. 28, 1978.
a youth basketball league in Los Angeles and Orange Counties: “Wooden’s Youth Cage Loop Set,” Los Angeles Times, Apr. 6, 1978.
“How many of you remember Pete Blackman?”: “John Wooden: A Man Who Has Stories to Tell,” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 1, 1978.
“Before we did it, people said it couldn’t be accomplished”: “Wooden Likes What He Is Seeing in Westwood These Days,” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 14, 1979.
He had been hospitalized for pneumonia: “Morgan Retires as UCLA Athletic Director,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 30, 1979.
He later remarked to a reporter that he could “cut [Brown’s] nuts off and he wouldn’t know it until he pulled his pants down”: Sports Illustrated, Nov. 30, 1981.
“I feared this guy would tear down the program if I fought him”: “Call Him Irreplaceable,” Sports Illustrated, Apr. 11, 1988.
“I know that I couldn’t afford to take the UCLA job”: “The March of the Wooden Soldiers,” Sports Illustrated, Apr. 16, 1984.
“This is day one of what I hope won’t be a two-year stint”: “Farmer: Move for Country,” Los Angeles Times, Mar. 18, 1981.
“Coach [Wooden], he might let you practice”: Heisler, They Shoot Coaches, Don’t They?, p. 133.
“Every one of those men left for better jobs more suited to their needs”: Sports Illustrated, Nov. 30, 1981.
“I have no fears about comparisons with Coach Wooden”: Ibid.
he gave Gilbert one of his NCAA championship rings: “NCAA Missed the Iceberg in Westwood,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 31, 1982.
After Marques Johnson joined the Milwaukee Bucks, he received a letter from Gilbert claiming that Johnson owed him around $2,000: “Wilkes Says Gilbert Sold Him Down River,” Los Angeles Times, Feb. 1, 1982.
Gilbert was “closer to the owners than he is to the players”: Scott, Bill Walton, p. 168.
“Are you going to use that letter [in the book]?”: Ibid., p. 215.
“called me aside and said, ‘We’re just not going after the institution right now’”: “Sam Gilbert and UCLA,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 31, 1982.
“He came up with zip”: “NCAA Unable to Spot a Pattern,” Los Angeles Times, Feb. 2, 1982.
Three of those recruits … told investigators that Gilbert had promised that he would provide them with cars: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 31, 1982.
The Los Angeles Times caught wind and published a report: “Car Buying by 4 UCLA Players Spurs Questions,” Los Angeles Times, July 27, 1980.
“The world has become too crass”: Sports Illustrated, Nov. 30, 1981.
The NCAA finally announced its findings on December 10, 1981: NCAA Infractions Report.
“Sam is interested in the program and the kids”: “Who Got UCLA in Trouble? Sam Gilbert’s Role Is Cited,” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 10, 1981.
“It’s a terrible thing, a slap in the face to him”: Ibid.
“I felt that the things the NCAA came up with were of an inconsequential nature”: “Wooden: UCLA’s Violations Minor,” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 27, 1981.
“I might be a little disillusioned, but I’m certainly not embarrassed”: “Wooden Remembers Booster,” New York Times, Feb. 4, 1982.
“he just didn’t want to know”: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 31, 1982.
“Knight was a great fundamentalist”: John Wooden interview with ESPN, Sept. 29, 2003.
“dictator”: Hall of Fame interview.
“I never threw anything. I never threw a chair”: Sports Illustrated, Apr. 3, 1989.
Cheaney sent in a videotaped acceptance speech instead of attending: “John Wooden Was the King of a Different (and Not Pristine) Era in College Basketball,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 10, 2010.
“But I would have played him”: Hill with Wooden, Be Quick—but Don’t Hurry!, p. 121.
“The problem we’re having is John Wooden”: Los Angeles Times, Mar. 4, 1984.
“Maybe that was the case at first, but it shouldn’t be now”: “Wooden: Bruins Seem to Be Playing Scared,” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Feb. 16, 1984.
“I had to tell them I really wasn’t”: “Farmer: It Wasn’t Fair for Me to Stay at UCLA,” Los Angeles Times, Apr. 2, 1984.
“Hey, it’s tough here”: Sports Illustrated, Apr. 16, 1984.
33. THE HARDEST LOSS
Interviews: Gary Cunningham, Michael Gilbert, John Green, Jim Harrick, Jack Hirsch, Marques Johnson, Jim Nielsen, Betty Putnam, Eddie Sheldrake
“Perhaps one of the reasons people still want to hear me”: “Wooden’s Deep Faith Nets Success,” Miami Herald, July 5, 1986.
“This is not my cup of tea”: Johnson, John Wooden Pyramid of Success, p. 133.
“I see coaches who have stopped coaching”: “John Wooden’s View from Retirement on Basketball, Discipline,” Christian Science Monitor, Mar. 12, 1986.
“I deplore a game of non-action”: “We Aren’t Going to Change, Says Tar Heels’ Smith,” Los Angeles Times, Mar. 11, 1982.
“He became much more famous after he retired”: Bisheff, John Wooden, p. 185.
“Today’s kids are crying out for discipline”: Christian Science Monitor, Mar. 12, 1986.
“I hope the good Lord will forgive my introducer”: Johnson, John Wooden Pyramid of Success, p. 148.
“That’s all a coach is. You’re a teacher”: Chicago Tribune, Mar. 5, 1995.
“Now he just coaches the world”: Johnson, John Wooden Pyramid of Success, p. 159.
Her doctors saved her life by massaging her heart for forty-five minutes: Los Angeles Times, Mar. 4, 1984.
“They never called him, never told him they were coming”: Miami Herald, July 5, 1986.
“Dad just never gave up hope”: Johnson, John Wooden Pyramid of Success, p. 261.
“I never broke down in front of my family”: Los Angeles Times, Mar. 4, 1984.
“It was … the last enjoyable thing she did”: Sports Illustrated, Apr. 3, 1989.
“He kept copious notes”: Johnson, John Wooden Pyramid of Success, p. 371.
“Your heart would pound”: Los Angeles Times, Mar. 4, 1984.
“She’s slowly slipping”: Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Feb. 28, 1985.
“When she’s awake, she’s very aware, and always thinking of John”: Ibid.
John took her cross and put it in his pocket: Miami Herald, July 5, 1986.
When he endorsed checks, he signed her name along with his: Sports Illustrated, Apr. 3, 1989.
“We thought it would make it easier now”: Johnson, John Wooden Pyramid of Success, p. 262.
“Well, a new one came in and an old one’s going out”: Ibid., p. 239.
“He’s an unmerciful tease”: Ibid., p. 223.
“My knees don’t handle this very well anymore”: “Wooden Holds Court for Last Time,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 20, 1988.
“He was shaving in the bathroom. Tears came to his eyes”: Johnson, John Wooden Pyramid of Success, p. 135.
“I won’t ever leave here, because I see her everywhere”: Sports Illustrated, Apr. 3, 1989.
“I couldn’t go without her”: Miami Herald, July 5, 1986.
“somber, almost melancholy mood”: “A Wizard on Life,” Long Beach Telegram, June 29, 1986.
“I don’t think I’m preoccupied with death”: “The Wizard of Willpower,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 14, 1990.
“Almost gone”: Sports Illustrated, Apr. 3, 1989.
“as if pleased with his actions”: NCAA Infractions Report.
“I think our program has weathered the storm”: “Minor Penalties to UCLA; Gilbert
Implicated,” Los Angeles Times, Sept. 15, 1987.
a federal grand jury in Miami indicted Gilbert and five other men: “Sports Figure Is Indicted—4 Days After Death,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 26, 1987.
Michael Gilbert would serve five and a half years in federal prison: “Miami Trial Gives Startling New Portrait of Sam Gilbert,” Los Angeles Times, Apr. 23, 1990.
34. ANDY
Interviews: Lucius Allen, Gary Cunningham, John Ecker, Keith Erickson, Gary Franklin, Fred Goss, John Green, Andy Hill, Jack Hirsch, Tony Medley, Jerry Norman, Don Saffer, Neville Saner, Terry Schofield, Eddie Sheldrake, Fred Slaughter, Gene Sutherland, John Wooden
“Stop hurrying,” he said. “You’re losing your balance”: Hill with Wooden, Be Quick—but Don’t Hurry!, p. 49.
“Have I ever told you how much I love you”: Bisheff, John Wooden, p. 165.
“I enjoyed it”: Johnson, John Wooden Pyramid of Success, p. 200.
he frequently claimed that he called time-out in the late stages of NCAA championship games: Sports Illustrated, Apr. 3, 1989.
“the official thought that I said something that somebody behind me said. But I kept it”: Wooden: Basketball and Beyond, The Official UCLA Retrospective (San Diego: Skybox Press, 2011), p. 7.
“the pressure didn’t bother me”: Academy of Achievement interview.
“the NCAA came in and checked and found nothing that took place during my years”: Wooden interview with Karpick.
“I refused because they wouldn’t let him”: Wooden interview with Rose,
“we were invited again [in 1948] and I refused”: Hall of Fame interview.
“refused to go to the [1948] tournament if Clarence couldn’t go”: “Color Wall Came Down Here in ’48,” Kansas City Star, Mar. 13, 2002.
“As I headed across the court through the thousands of well-wishers and fans”: John Wooden with Steve Jamison, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and off the Court (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997), p. 162.
“Two minutes before, I had no intention of retiring for two more years”: Wooden interview with ESPN, Apr. 19, 2000.
“Jerry wasn’t a ‘yes man,’ by any means”: “Bruins’ Wooden Fought Against Installing Press,” Los Angeles Times, Feb. 5, 1969.
“As far as the pressing defense was concerned”: Johnson, John Wooden Pyramid of Success, p. 42.
“I decided to stick with something that had been very successful for me at Indiana State and high school”: Hall of Fame interview.
“One assistant suggested that we bring back a zone press”: Wooden and Yaeger, Game Plan for Life, p. 84.
“He’s just a tough, cold guy”: Chapin and Prugh, Wizard of Westwood, p. 307.
35. YONDER
Interviews: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lucius Allen, Bill Bennett, Henry Bibby, Pete Blackman, Dick Enberg, Doug Erickson, Keith Erickson, Larry Farmer, Bob Field, Valorie Kondos Field, John Green, Jim Harrick, Walt Hazzard, Andy Hill, Ben Howland, Marques Johnson, Mike Lynn, Bill Walton, Mike Warren, Jeff Weiss, Jamaal Wilkes, Sidney Wicks
“Hardly a day goes by that I don’t get a call or a letter”: Academy of Achievement interview.
Afterward, Cathleen asked Wooden who the man was. He said he had no idea: Johnson, John Wooden Pyramid of Success, p. 242.
“I won’t say that I’m not flattered by things of that sort”: Hall of Fame interview.
Nan, like Nell, would interject with a sharp, “Then don’t”: Ibid.
“I can’t believe people are that stupid”: Bisheff, John Wooden, p. 183.
Dellins called Wooden because he had heard a rumor that Wooden had died: “Wooden Has Too Much Life Left in Him to Call It Quits,” Los Angeles Times, May 1, 2009.
He put a baby monitor beside Wooden’s bed: “No One Cared for John Wooden Like Tony Spino,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 20, 2011.
“Most of the time he’s not who he was”: “UCLA Coaching Legend John Wooden Celebrates His Birthday Today,” Daily News of Los Angeles, Oct. 14, 2009.
“I’m working on it”: Nan Wooden, “Faith, Love and Basketball,” Guideposts, May 2012.
INDEX
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ABC TV network
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem (Lew Alcindor)
1967–68 season and
1968–69 season and
background of
bidding war between ABA and NBA for
Black Youth Conference and
college record of
converts to Islam and changes name
death threats vs.
diary published in Sports Illustrated
dignity robes of
dunking rule and
Gilbert and
Lacey dispute and
marijuana and
media and
Naulls and
NBA contract and
NCAA Most Outstanding Player
personality of
summer job and
UCLA freshman team and
Walton and
Wooden and team rules and
Ackerman, Bill
Adams, Carroll
Alabama, University of, Birmingham
Alcindor, Ferdinand Lewis, Sr. “Big Al”
Alcindor, Lew. See Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem
All-America Board of Basketball Coaches
All-Americans
Allen, Lucius
arrests
Gilbert and
NBA and
Allen, Phog
Alper, Art
Amateur Athletic Union (AAU)
American Basketball Association (ABA)
American Basketball League (ABL)
Anaheim Angels
Andersen, Stan
Anderson, Indiana, baseball team
Anderson, Sparky
Aranoff, Steve
Archer, Bob
Arizona, University of
Arizona State University (ASU)
Arkansas, University of
Armstrong, Henry
Armstrong, Neil
Arnold, Frank
Artesian (yearbook)
Ashe, Arthur
Associated Press (AP)
Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU, “Big Six”)
1959–60 season
1960–61 season
1961–62 season
1962–63 season
1965–66 season
1966–67 season
play-offs of 1963
formation of
renamed Pacific 8
UCLA wins 1962 title
Athletic Revolution, The (Scott)
Atkinson, Byron
Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)
Auerbach, Red
Autobiography of a Yogi (Yogananda)
Autobiography of Malcolm X, The
Autry, Gene
Averbuck, Ned
Baird, Frank
Balter, Sam
Banton, Dick
Barksdale, Don
Barry, Sam
Bartow, Gene
Gilbert and
UAB and
as UCLA coach
Bartow, Murry
Bartow, Ruth
basketball
early barnstorming
first Olympics of
invention and early development of
popularity of, by Naismith’s death
Basketball Association of America (BAA)
Basketball Hall of Fame (Indiana)
Basketball Hall of Fame (Springfield)
Wooden inducted, as coach, 1973
Wooden inducted, as player, 1960
Wooden interview of 2001
Basketball: Its Origin and Development (Naismith)
Bass, Willard
Bates, Floyd
Batmale, Lou
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br /> Bauer, Ralph
Bayh, Birch
Bayh, Birch, Jr.
Bayh, Evan
Bayless, Skip
Baylor, Elgin
Baylor University
Belko, Steve
Bender, Billy
Benington, John
Bennett, Bill
Bennett, Joanne
Be Quick—But Don’t Hurry! (Hill, with Wooden)
Berberich, John
Berry, Bob
Berst, David
Bertka, Bill
Beta Inc. basketball shoe
Beta Theta Pi
Betchley, Rick
Bibby, Henry
Big Ten
Purdue records in, 1928–32
Big Ten, The (Wilson and Brondfield)
Big Ten Academic medal (1932)
Bill Walton (Scott)
Bird, Larry
Bisesi, Vinnie
Blackman, Pete
Black Panthers
black players. See also specific individuals
Black Youth Conference
Indiana of 1930s and
interracial dating and
NAIB and
power of, in Alcindor years
Russell changes game
segregation and
Black Youth Conference
Blakey, Art
Bloom, Leonard
Blue Chips (film)
Bonds, Barry
Booker, Kenny
Boston Celtics
Boston College
Boston University
Boulding, Wayne
Boyd, Bob
Boykoff, Harry
Bozeman, Cedric
Bradley, Bill
Bradley, Omar
Bradley, Tom
Bradley University
Bragg, Don
Brigham Young University (BYU)
Brokaw, Gary
Brooklyn Dodgers
Brown, Barbara
Brown, Joe
Brown, Larry
as UCLA coach, 1979–81
Brown, Warren
Bruin Classic
Bruin Hoopsters
Bryant, Bear
Bubas, Vic
Buch, Al
Buckley, Jay
Bunche, Ralph
Buntin, Bill
Burke, Conrad
Burleson, Tom
Burnett, Bob
Burns, Floyd
Burrows, Pembrook
Buscaglia, Leo
Bush, Donnie
Bussenius, Bill
Butler University
Byers, Walter