Jun 6th, 2010
Indianapolis Strip Clubs: TJ Simers: John Wooden’s life was a love letter
They will quote any number of important people talking about how much they admired Wooden, which more often than not made him uncomfortable. He preferred to quote others.
“A life not lived for others is not a life,” he would often say in repeating something said by Mother Teresa, the person in his lifetime he admired the most.
He was a student of Abraham Lincoln and worshipped his own father, suggesting everyone’s mother and father should be first on the list to be revered.
All his life he carried his father’s seven-point creed with him in his wallet, one of his father’s maxims best explaining John Wooden’s entire life: “Make each day your masterpiece.”
I will recall his wicked sense of humor, our arguments over tattoos, our little jokes about mixing up Sally Rand the stripper with Sally Ride the astronaut, and the mock outrage for naming a post office after someone who drank moonshine during Prohibition.