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

Tall Versus “Tall”

I told my athletes in basketball, “I don’t care if you are tall, but I do care if you play tall.” It’s just another way of saying that I judged them by the level of effort they gave to the team’s journey.

That’s the standard of measurement I used. I could also have told them, “Show me what you can do, don’t tell me what you can do.”

Too often the big talkers are the little doers.