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Wooden on Leadership
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Now, where Jack came from maybe our training table food
didn’t taste good. As far I was concerned, it was fine. Coach
understood he could not let Jack say what he said. It was not
acceptable, disrespectful. Jack remained off the team until he
changed his attitude and apologized.
Two weeks later Jack was back at the training table, not ex-
actly wolfing it down, but not complaining either.
Athletics is like life. Sometime you can do everything right
and still lose. It’s all a journey. You do your best, and then you
have to let it go. Lots of people preach that, but come crunch
time—oops, not so easy to do. Coach practiced what he
preached. Even when the fickle finger of fate took over.