“Basketball's John Wooden: What a Coach Can Teach a Teacher,” put it, Wooden's “teaching utterances or comments were short, punctuated, and numerous. There were no lectures, no extended harangues … he rarely spoke longer than twenty seconds.” Here are some of Wooden's more long-winded “speeches”: “Take the ball softly; you're receiving a pass, not intercepting it.” “Do some dribbling between shots.”
