McGraw-Hill Remembers Coach John Wooden

He was foremost a teacher, but to the millions of people who followed his plain spoken wisdom on character, leadership, and success, Coach Wooden was an icon.

John Wooden led his UCLA Bruins to ten NCAA men's basketball championships over a twelve-year period, including four perfect seasons and an 88-game winning streak. He was named ESPN's "Greatest Coach of the 20th Century," and in 2003 he was awarded The Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush.

Yet throughout his life—from the farm in the Midwest to the Basketball Hall of Fame—John Wooden said of himself, "I am just a common man true to his beliefs." Those beliefs stemmed from the Seven Point Creed passed down to him from his father. It not only became the foundation for a legendary sports dynasty, it also gave rise to his winning philosophy on what he called the Pyramid of Success.

These building blocks of success fueled seven bestselling books published with McGraw-Hill: Wooden (1997), They Call Me Coach (2004), My Personal Best (2004), Wooden on Leadership (2005), The Essential Wooden (2007), and Coach Wooden's Leadership Game Plan for Success (2009).

Coach Wooden said, "Make every day a masterpiece." And indeed Coach Wooden made his life a masterpiece. Coach's final book, The Wisdom of Wooden: A Century of Family, Faith, and Friends, is a commemorative of his life written with longtime collaborator Steve Jamison. Filled with fond personal memories, warm advice, and never-before-seen-photographs, it is an unforgettable tribute to the man we all called, "Coach."

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