student success statement

"What you are as a person is far more important than what are you as a basketball player."                                                 -John Wooden                                                                                                                   John Wooden was not only a basketball coach he was a basketball player so he knows first hand what it really means to be   an athlete..                                                                                                                                                                                      John Wooden believes that there is something much greater than being a basketball player. I think that he believes basketball not only changes your attitude but it changes your perspective on everything. For example, If you are a horrible person and rude to everyone and decide to become an athlete no one on your team and none of your coaches with take your attitude. Thats if they dont kick you out... Although you might have a horrible attitude your coach will train you not only as an athlete but to be a better person. To be a good athlete you must be a good person first. Athletics are about competition and even if you either win or lose being a good sport is always permitted. If you win a game and rub it in the other teams face that's not exactly being professional it is being childish. Although, If you go shake the other teams and and give them props for having a good game that's what being a true player is.