WHAT TOM OSBORNE LEARNED FROM JOHN WOODEN

“In a coaching sense it was something I read in John Wooden’s book, where he said that he never talked about winning. He always talked about the process. If you practice well every day and give a great effort, it’s the daily, minute-by-minute acts that lead to performing well. And really after reading that, the last several years that I coached, I don’t ever recall mentioning winning to our players either. Probably the most important advice that I got from my dad was to finish what you start. He had a good work ethic and he always wanted me to follow through on whatever I had begun.”

-Tom Osborne