A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron Pierre De Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, made it the Olympic Games ideal adopted at the Antwerp Games in 1920. I never mentioned winning to my players. I mentioned constantly that all I wanted them to do was the best they could. If they're good enough, the score will be to their liking; if they're not, it won't be but that's nothing to hang their head about. Sometimes the other fellow is just better than you are.

A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people

The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.'

Place the team above yourself always.

I always talked to my players about today. It's the only day that matters.

Rest when you need to, but never quit.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.