John Wooden
Basketball coach at UCLA, 1948-1975; winner of ten NCAA championships
That's all I was: a teacher. That's all I was as a basketball coach, just a teacher.
Craft & work
Looking back, which parts of your working life mattered, and which parts only seemed important at the time?
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Sir Roger Bannister
Middle-distance runner and neurologist; first man to run a mile in under four minutes
So the values were career, medicine. Sport was something other, something to be set aside.
Steve Martin
Comedian, actor and writer
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. 10 of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
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