That's all I was: a teacher. That's all I was as a basketball coach, just a teacher.
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John Wooden
Basketball coach at UCLA, 1948-1975; winner of ten NCAA championships
United States · 1910–2010
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Won ten NCAA championships in twelve years at UCLA, including seven in a row and an eighty-eight game winning streak, and is the only person inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame as both player and coach. Taught English before he coached, and described himself as a teacher throughout.
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