Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

The Hard Part Is Still Ahead

Having defined what I believe success truly is, I recognized there was an even greater task before me: to fully understand and then describe what was necessary to achieve this success, both individually and as a member of a basketball team or any other team in life. Without this second part, it would be like going on a trip in your car if you knew where you wanted to go but didn’t know how to get there. You might correctly be described as going nowhere.

What does it take to achieve success, to get where I knew I wanted to go? I began a long search for the answers.