From the legendary basketball coach who inspired generations of athletes
and businesspeople, an inspiring book about the power of mentoring and
being mentored.
After eight books, many of them best sellers, A Game Plan for Life is
the one closest to John Wooden's heart: a moving and inspirational guide
to the power of mentorship. The first half focuses on the people who
helped foster the values that carried Wooden through an incredibly
successful and famously principled career, including his college coach,
his wife, Abraham Lincoln, and Mother Teresa. The second half is built
around interviews with some of the many people he mentored over the
years, including Kareem Abdul- Jabbar, Bill Walton, fellow coaches,
family members, and even a middle school coach in Canada.
Their testimony takes readers inside the lessons Wooden taught to
generations of players, bringing out the very best in them not just as
athletes but as human beings. In all, its an inspiring primer on how to
achieve success without sacrificing principles, and on how to build one
of the most productive and rewarding relationships available to any
athlete, businessperson, teacher, or parent: that of mentor and protege.
