"The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team."
— John Wooden
The Main Ingredient Of Stardom Is
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
About this quote
This observation appears in They Call Me Coach (1972). Wooden won ten NCAA national championships at UCLA between 1964 and 1975, including seven consecutive titles from 1967 to 1973, and he attributed the programme's dominance not to any single player but to the collective quality of the team. He actively resisted the star-centred culture of basketball, insisting that individual statistics were secondary to the team's collective functioning.
Source
They Call Me Coach, 1972
