Student success statement

“When I was teaching basketball, I urged my players to try their hardest to improve on that very day, to make that practice a masterpiece.

This rule is even more important in life than basketball. You have to apply yourself each day to become a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better. Only then will you be able to approach being the best you can be. It begins by trying to make each day count and knowing you can never make up for a lost day.”

-John Wooden

What wooden is saying is one of the greatest things I have ever heard. What he is saying is that you have to make every day count. You have try to get the most out everything you do in like. In practice even though we are a state ranked team our coach makes play wall ball and has us do it for about half an hour. They also tell us to treat everything like a game. We do this to get the most out of everything. By doing that as a team and individuals we get better every day.

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“The Three Don’ts”

Don’t whine

 Don’t Complain

Don’t make excuses

--John Wooden

These three don’ts are something that every athlete has to live by in order to play. What wooden is trying to say is that these three actions only stunt your growth as a player and as a person. When you just complain, whine, and make excuses you go nowhere and never improve. In my lacrosse practice whenever we complain we do sprints as a team, if we make excuses we run a mile. The importance of this is that all of the consequences to the complaining and excuse making our coach gives us makes us never complain, whine, or make excuses we just endure.    

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“The Three Never.”

Never lie

Never cheat

Never steel

-John Wooden

Wooden gives a layout of a perfect way to live. If people where to live by these three Nevers our world would be a lot safer. Many people go through their whole lives only cheating, lying, and stealing. When you do all of these your life becomes empty. One of my old friends convinced me to cheat on a test with him and we got caught and just lied about it. We still ended up getting in trouble, but it made me learn that I should never cheat,  and to never lie.