I coined my own definition of success in 1934, when I was teaching at a high school in South Bend, Indiana, being a little bit disappointed, and [disillusioned] perhaps, by the way parents of the youngsters in my English classes expected their youngsters to get an A or a B. They thought a C was all right for the neighbors' children, because they were all average. But they weren't satisfied when their own -- it would make the teacher feel that they had failed, or the youngster had failed. And that's not right. The good Lord in his infinite wisdom didn't create us all equal as far as intelligence is concerned, any more than we're equal for size, appearance.
Smislio sam sopstvenu definiciju uspeha 1934. kada sam predavao u srednjoj školi u Saut Bendu, Indijana, pošto sam bio pomalo razočaran i možda obmanjen načinom na koji su roditelji omladine na mojim časovima engleskog očekivali od svoje dece da dobiju četvorke ili petice. Mislili su da je trojka u redu za komšijinu decu, jer su komšijska deca sva prosečna. Ali nisu bili zadovoljni svojom decom - naterali bi ili profesora ili dete da se oseća kao da je podbacio. To nije u redu. Dobri bog u svojoj beskrajnoj mudrosti nas nije sve napravio jednakim što se tiče inteligencije, isto kao što nismo jednaki u veličini i izgledu. Nije svako mogao da zasluži 4 ili 5, i nije mi se dopadao takav način procene.
Not everybody could earn an A or a B, and I didn't like that way of judging, and I did know how the alumni of various schools back in the '30s judged coaches and athletic teams. If you won them all, you were considered to be reasonably successful -- not completely. Because I found out -- we had a number of years at UCLA where we didn't lose a game. But it seemed that we didn't win each individual game by the margin that some of our alumni had predicted -- (Laughter) And quite frequently I really felt that they had backed up their predictions in a more materialistic manner.
A znao sam kako su kolektivi raznih škola u 30-tima procenjivali sudije i sportske timove. Ako ste ih sve pridobili, smatrali su da ste razumno uspešni - ne sasvim. Jer sam otkrio - imali smo određeni broj godina na kalifornijskom univerzitetu gde nismo izgubili utakmicu. Ali činilo se da nismo u svakoj pojedinačnoj utakmici pobedili po granici koju je naš kolektiv predvideo i ja sam sasvim često - (Smeh) - sasvim često sam imao osećaj da su svoja predviđanja zasnovali na više materijalan način.
(Laughter)
Ali to je bilo istinito 30-tih i ja sam razumeo to.
But that was true back in the 30s, so I understood that. But I didn't like it, I didn't agree with it. I wanted to come up with something I hoped could make me a better teacher, and give the youngsters under my supervision, be it in athletics or the English classroom, something to which to aspire, other than just a higher mark in the classroom, or more points in some athletic contest.
Nije mi se sviđalo. I nisam se slagao s time. Želeo sam da smislim nešto što bi od mene napravilo boljeg nastavnika i mladima pod mojim nadzorom - bez obzira da li je to na fizičkom ili u učionici na času engleskog - nešto ka čemu bi težili, osim veće ocene u učionici, ili poena na sportskom takmičenju. Dosta sam razmišljao o tome i hteo sam
I thought about that for quite a spell, and I wanted to come up with my own definition. I thought that might help. And I knew how Mr. Webster defined it, as the accumulation of material possessions or the attainment of a position of power or prestige, or something of that sort, worthy accomplishments perhaps, but in my opinion, not necessarily indicative of success. So I wanted to come up with something of my own.
da smislim svoju definiciju. Mislio sam da bi to pomoglo. Znao sam kako je to g. Vebster definisao: skupljanje materijalnog imetka ili sticanje pozicije moći i prestiža ili nešto tako - možda vredna postignuća, ali ona koja po mom mišljenju nisu znak uspeha. Tako sam želeo da smislim nešto svoje.
And I recalled -- I was raised on a small farm in Southern Indiana, and Dad tried to teach me and my brothers that you should never try to be better than someone else. I'm sure at the time he did that, I didn't -- it didn't -- well, somewhere, I guess in the hidden recesses of the mind, it popped out years later. Never try to be better than someone else, always learn from others. Never cease trying to be the best you can be -- that's under your control. If you get too engrossed and involved and concerned in regard to the things over which you have no control, it will adversely affect the things over which you have control. Then I ran across this simple verse that said, "At God's footstool to confess, a poor soul knelt, and bowed his head. 'I failed!' he cried. The Master said, 'Thou didst thy best, that is success.'"
I sećao sam se - odrastao sam na maloj farmi u južnoj Indijani i tata je pokušao mene i moju braću da nauči da nikada ne pokušavaš da budeš bolji od nekoga drugog. Siguran sam da u vreme kada je to radio, ja nisam - to nije - pa, pretpostavljam iz nekog skrivenog kutka uma, to je iskočilo godinama kasnije. Nikada ne pokušavaj da budeš bolji od nekoga, uvek uči od drugih. Nikada ne prestaj da pokušavaš da budeš najbolji što možeš - to je pod tvojom kontrolom. Ako se previše zaokupiraš i umešaš i zabrineš u vezi sa stvarima gde nemaš kontrolu, to će negativno uticati na stvari gde imaš kontrolu. Onda sam naišao na ovaj jednostavni stih: "Jadna duša je poklekla pred božjim nogama i savila glavu. 'Nisam uspeo!' Uzviknuo je. Gospodar je rekao: 'Uradio si najbolje što možeš, to je tvoj uspeh.'"
From those things, and one other perhaps, I coined my own definition of success, which is: Peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you're capable. I believe that's true. If you make the effort to do the best of which you're capable, trying to improve the situation that exists for you, I think that's success, and I don't think others can judge that; it's like character and reputation -- your reputation is what you're perceived to be; your character is what you really are. And I think that character is much more important than what you are perceived to be. You'd hope they'd both be good, but they won't necessarily be the same. Well, that was my idea that I was going to try to get across to the youngsters.
Iz tih stvari, i možda još jedne, smislio sam svoju definiciju uspeha, a to je: mir koji se postiže samo kroz samozadovoljstvo iz znanja da si se potrudio da uradiš najbolje što si sposoban da uradiš. Verujem da je to istina. Ako se potrudiš da uradiš najbolje što možeš, da pokušaš da poboljšaš situaciju koja postoji za tebe, mislim da je to uspeh. Mislim da drugi ne mogu da sude o tome. Mislim da je to kao karakter i reputacija. Vaša reputacija je ono kako vas vide; vaš karakter je ono što vi zaista jeste. Mislim da je karakter mnogo bitniji od onoga što ljudi misle da vi jeste. Nadate se da će obe stvari biti dobre, ali ne moraju biti iste. Pa, to je bila moja zamisao koju bih pokušao da prenesem mladima.
I ran across other things. I love to teach, and it was mentioned by the previous speaker that I enjoy poetry, and I dabble in it a bit, and love it. There are some things that helped me, I think, be better than I would have been. I know I'm not what I ought to be, what I should be, but I think I'm better than I would have been if I hadn't run across certain things. One was just a little verse that said,
Nailazio sam na druge stvari. Volim da predajem, i prethodni govornik je rekao da volim poeziju i pomalo se bavim time i volim to. Mislim da postoje neke stvari koje su mi pomogle da budem bolji nego što bih bio. Znam da nisam ono što bih trebao da budem. Ali mislim da sam bolji nego što bih bio da nisam naišao na određene stvari. Jedna od njih je bila strofa koja kaže: "Ni reč pisana, ni molba izrečena
"No written word, no spoken plea can teach our youth what they should be; nor all the books on all the shelves -- it's what the teachers are themselves."
mlade ne uči šta treba da budu. Ni sve knjige na policama - to samo mogu sami nastavnici."
That made an impression on me in the 1930s. And I tried to use that more or less in my teaching, whether it be in sports, or whether it be in the English classroom. I love poetry and always had an interest in that somehow. Maybe it's because Dad used to read to us at night, by coal oil lamp -- we didn't have electricity in our farm home. And Dad would read poetry to us. So I always liked it. And about the same time I ran across this one verse, I ran across another one. Someone asked a lady teacher why she taught, and after some time, she said she wanted to think about that. Then she came up and said,
Na mene je 1930-tih to ostavilo utisak. Manje - više sam pokušao da koristim to na svojim časovima, i u sportu, i u predavanju engleskog. Volim poeziju i nekako sam se uvek interesovao za to. Možda zato što nam je otac noću čitao. Uz lampu na petrolej - nismo imali struju u našoj kući na farmi. Tata bi nam čitao poeziju. Tako sam je voleo uvek. U isto vreme kad sam naleteo na ovu strofu, naleteo sam na još jednu. Neko je pitao učiteljicu šta je mislila. Nakon nekog vremena, rekla je da želi da razmisli o tome. Onda je došla i rekla:
"They ask me why I teach, and I reply, 'Where could I find such splendid company?' There sits a statesman, strong, unbiased, wise; another Daniel Webster, silver-tongued. A doctor sits beside him, whose quick, steady hand may mend a bone, or stem the life-blood's flow. And there a builder; upward rise the arch of a church he builds, wherein that minister may speak the word of God, and lead a stumbling soul to touch the Christ. And all about, a gathering of teachers, farmers, merchants, laborers -- those who work and vote and build and plan and pray into a great tomorrow. And I may say, I may not see the church, or hear the word, or eat the food their hands may grow, but yet again I may; And later I may say, I knew him once, and he was weak, or strong, or bold or proud or gay. I knew him once, but then he was a boy. They ask me why I teach and I reply, 'Where could I find such splendid company?'"
"Pitaju me zašto predajem a ja im odgovaram: 'Gde bih našla tako sjajno društvo?' Tu sedi državnik, jak, nepristrasan, mudar; novi Danijel Vebster, britkoga jezika. Pored njega sedi doktor, čija hitra ruka može da zaleči kost ili zaustavi krv da ne teče. A tu je i graditelj. Uvis diže luk na crkvi, gde sveštenik može da širi reč božju i povede posrnulu dušu da dotakne Hrista. Svuda je skup učitelja, zemljoradnika, trgovaca, radnika, onih koji rade, glasaju, grade, planiraju i mole se za sjajnu sutrašnjicu. Rekla bih, možda ne vidim crkvu i ne čujem reči ili jedem hranu koju uzgajaju njihove ruke. Ali možda hoću. Kasnije bih rekla, nekad sam ga poznavala i bio je slab, ili jak ili hrabar ili veseo. Poznavala sam ga nekad, ali je bio samo dečak. Pitaju me zašto predajem i odgovaram: 'Gde bih našla tako sjajno društvo?'"
And I believe the teaching profession -- it's true, you have so many youngsters, and I've got to think of my youngsters at UCLA -- 30-some attorneys, 11 dentists and doctors, many, many teachers and other professions. And that gives you a great deal of pleasure, to see them go on. I always tried to make the youngsters feel that they're there to get an education, number one; basketball was second, because it was paying their way, and they do need a little time for social activities, but you let social activities take a little precedence over the other two, and you're not going to have any very long. So that was the idea that I tried to get across to the youngsters under my supervision.
Verujem da je zanimanje nastavnika - istina je, ima toliko omladine. Moram da pomislim na svoju omladinu na UCLA - tridesetak advokata, 11 zubara i doktora, mnogo, mnogo nastavnika i drugih zanimanja. To vam pruža dosta zadovoljstva, da ih vidite kako idu dalje. Uvek sam pokušao da postignem da se mladi osete da su tu na prvom mestu da steknu obrazovanje. Košarka je druga, jer su time plaćali sve i treba im malo vremena za društvene aktivnosti, ali ako dozvolite društvenim aktivnostima da nadvladaju ovo dvoje, nećete imati ništa veoma dugo. To su ideje koje sam pokušao da prenesem omladini pod mojim vođstvom.
I had three rules, pretty much, that I stuck with practically all the time. I'd learned these prior to coming to UCLA, and I decided they were very important. One was "Never be late." Later on I said certain things -- the players, if we were leaving for somewhere, had to be neat and clean. There was a time when I made them wear jackets and shirts and ties. Then I saw our chancellor coming to school in denims and turtlenecks, and thought, it's not right for me to keep this other [rule] so I let them just -- they had to be neat and clean. I had one of my greatest players that you probably heard of, Bill Walton. He came to catch the bus; we were leaving for somewhere to play. And he wasn't clean and neat, so I wouldn't let him go. He couldn't get on the bus, he had to go home and get cleaned up to get to the airport. So I was a stickler for that. I believed in that. I believe in time; very important. I believe you should be on time, but I felt at practice, for example -- we start on time, we close on time. The youngsters didn't have to feel that we were going to keep them over.
Otprilike sam imao tri pravila kojih sam se držao skoro uvek. Njih sam naučio pre dolaska na UCLA i odlučio sam da su veoma bitna. Prvo je - nikada ne kasni. Nikada ne kasni. Kasnije sam rekao određene stvari - imao bih igrače koji bi morali da budu čisti i uredni ako bismo išli negde. Jedno vreme sam ih terao da nose sakoe, košulje i kravate. Onda sam video kancelara kako u školu dolazi u džinsu i rolci, pa sam pomislio, nije u redu da zadržim ovo drugo dvoje. Pa sam ih pustio - samo neka budu uredni i čisti. Imao sam jednog od najvećih igrača za kojeg ste verovatno čuli, Bila Voltona. Došao je da uhvati autobus, išli smo da igramo negde. Nije bio čist i uredan, pa nisam hteo da ga pustim da ide. Nije mogao da uđe u autobus. Morao je da ode kući i sredi se da bi stigao na aerodrom. Bio sam sitničar za to. U to sam verovao. Verujem u vreme, ono je veoma bitno. Verujem da treba da budete tačni. Na primer, na treningu sam primetio, počnemo na vreme i završimo na vreme. Mladi nisu morali da osećaju da ćemo ih zadržati predugo.
When I speak at coaching clinics, I often tell young coaches -- and at coaching clinics, more or less, they'll be the younger coaches getting in the profession. Most of them are young, you know, and probably newly-married. And I tell them, "Don't run practices late, because you'll go home in a bad mood, and that's not good, for a young married man to go home in a bad mood. When you get older, it doesn't make any difference, but --"
Kada govorim pred klinikama za trenere, često govorim mladim trenerima - a tu su manje-više mladi treneri koji kreću sa zanimanjem. Većina njih su mladi, znate, odskora oženjeni. Ja im kažem: "Ne kasnite s treninzima. Otići ćete kući loše raspoloženi. Za mladog, oženjenog čoveka nije dobro da ode kući loše raspoložen. Kada ostarite, nema neke razlike." Ali -
(Laughter)
(Smeh)
So I did believe: on time.
Tako da jesam verovao u tačnost.
I believe starting on time, and I believe closing on time. And another one I had was, not one word of profanity. One word of profanity, and you are out of here for the day. If I see it in a game, you're going to come out and sit on the bench. And the third one was, never criticize a teammate. I didn't want that. I used to tell them I was paid to do that. That's my job. I'm paid to do it. Pitifully poor, but I am paid to do it. Not like the coaches today, for gracious sakes, no. It's a little different than it was in my day. Those were three things that I stuck with pretty closely all the time. And those actually came from my dad. That's what he tried to teach me and my brothers at one time.
U počinjanje i završavanje na vreme. Još jedno pravilo bilo je da nije smelo biti psovki. Jedna prosta reč, i letite na dan. Ako to vidim u toku igre, letite napolje i idete na klupu. Treća stvar je, nikada ne kritikuj saigrača. Nisam želeo to. Govorio im bih da sam ja za to plaćen. To je moj posao. Za to me plaćaju. Katastrofalno malo, ali me plaćaju. Ne kao današnje trenere, pobogu, ne. Malo je drugačije nego u moje vreme. To su bile tri stvari kojih sam se držao prilično čvrsto sve vreme. To je zapravo poteklo od mog oca. To je nekad pokušao da nauči mene i moju braću.
I came up with a pyramid eventually, that I don't have the time to go on that. But that helped me, I think, become a better teacher. It's something like this: And I had blocks in the pyramid, and the cornerstones being industriousness and enthusiasm, working hard and enjoying what you're doing, coming up to the apex, according to my definition of success. And right at the top, faith and patience.
Na kraju sam smislio piramidu ali nemam vremena da pričam o tome. Ali mislim da mi je to pomoglo da postanem bolji nastavnik. To je nešto poput ovog: imao sam blokove u piramidi, a osnove su bili vrednoća i zainteresovanost, naporan rad i uživanje u tome šta radite, dolazeći do vrha po mojoj definiciji uspeha. A na samom vrhu - vera i strpljenje.
And I say to you, in whatever you're doing, you must be patient. You have to have patience to -- we want things to happen. We talk about our youth being impatient a lot, and they are. They want to change everything. They think all change is progress. And we get a little older -- we sort of let things go. And we forget there is no progress without change. So you must have patience, and I believe that we must have faith. I believe that we must believe, truly believe. Not just give it word service, believe that things will work out as they should, providing we do what we should. I think our tendency is to hope things will turn out the way we want them to much of the time, but we don't do the things that are necessary to make those things become reality. I worked on this for some 14 years, and I think it helped me become a better teacher. But it all revolved around that original definition of success.
Kažem vam, šta god da radite, morate biti strpljivi. Morate imati strpljenja da - želimo da se stvari dogode. Govorimo da je omladina prilično nestrpljiva. I jesu. Žele sve da promene. Misle da je svaka promena napredak. Kako starimo, kao da nekako popuštamo. Zaboravljamo da bez promene nema napretka. Morate imati strpljenja. I verujem da moramo imati vere. Verujem da moramo verovati, iskreno verovati. Ne samo kroz reči, verovati da će se stvari rešiti kako treba, ako radimo ono što bi trebalo. Mislim da smo skloni verovanju da će se stvari odviti kako želimo većinu vremena. Ali ne radimo stvari koje su potrebne da bi te stvari postale stvarnost. Na ovome sam radio oko 14 godina i mislim da mi je pomoglo da postanem bolji nastavnik. Ali sve se okretalo oko te prvobitne definicije uspeha.
You know, a number of years ago, there was a Major League Baseball umpire by the name of George Moriarty. He spelled Moriarty with only one 'i'. I'd never seen that before, but he did. Big league baseball players -- they're very perceptive about those things, and they noticed he had only one 'i' in his name. You'd be surprised how many also told him that that was one more than he had in his head at various times.
Pre određenog broja godina, postojao je sudija u Glavnoj ligi bejzbola koji se zvao Džordž Morijarti. "Morijarti" je pisao samo sa jednim "i". Nikada pre to nisam video ali to je radio. Bejzbol igrači velike lige - lako opažaju ovakve stvari i primetili su da je u svom imenu imao samo jedno "i". Iznenadili biste se koliko njih mu je takođe reklo da je to za jedno više nego što je imao u svojoj glavi u različitim periodima.
(Laughter)
(Smeh)
But he wrote something where I think he did what I tried to do in this pyramid. He called it "The Road Ahead, or the Road Behind." He said, "Sometimes I think the Fates must grin as we denounce them and insist the only reason we can't win, is the Fates themselves have missed. Yet there lives on the ancient claim: we win or lose within ourselves. The shining trophies on our shelves can never win tomorrow's game. You and I know deeper down, there's always a chance to win the crown. But when we fail to give our best, we simply haven't met the test, of giving all and saving none until the game is really won; of showing what is meant by grit; of playing through when others quit; of playing through, not letting up. It's bearing down that wins the cup. Of dreaming there's a goal ahead; of hoping when our dreams are dead; of praying when our hopes have fled; yet losing, not afraid to fall, if, bravely, we have given all. For who can ask more of a man than giving all within his span. Giving all, it seems to me, is not so far from victory. And so the Fates are seldom wrong, no matter how they twist and wind. It's you and I who make our fates -- we open up or close the gates on the road ahead or the road behind."
Ali napisao je nešto za šta mislim da je uradio dok sam ja pokušao da uradim ovu piramidu. Nazvao je to "Put ispred ili put iza". "Ponekad mislim da sudbina mora da se smeši dok je odbacujemo i tvrdimo da je jedini razlog za to što ne možemo pobediti promašaj sudbine. Ali živi prastara izreka: pobeđujemo ili gubimo unutar sami sebe. Sjajni trofeji na policama nikad ne mogu dobiti sutrašnju utakmicu. I ja i vi znamo duboko u sebi da ima šanse da osvojimo krunu. Ali kad ne damo sve od sebe, jednostavno ne položimo test toga da damo sve i ne čuvamo ništa dok utakmica stvarno nije gotova, da pokažemo šta je upornost, šta je igra dok se drugi predaju, šta je igranje do kraja, bez popuštanja. Nadvladanjem se dobija kup. Snivanjem da postoji cilj, nadom kada su naši snovi mrtvi, molitvom kada nestanu naše nade. Ipak gubimo, ne plašeći se pada, ako smo hrabro dali sve. Ko može tražiti više od čoveka nego da da sve od sebe. Kako mi se čini, dati sve nije daleko od pobede. Tako sudbina često greši, kako god se to uvrne i izmota. Ti i ja smo oni koji kuju svoje sudbine, otvaramo i zatvaramo kapiju za put unapred ili iza nas".
Reminds me of another set of threes that my dad tried to get across to us: Don't whine. Don't complain. Don't make excuses. Just get out there, and whatever you're doing, do it to the best of your ability. And no one can do more than that. I tried to get across, too, that -- my opponents will tell you -- you never heard me mention winning. Never mention winning. My idea is that you can lose when you outscore somebody in a game, and you can win when you're outscored. I've felt that way on certain occasions, at various times. And I just wanted them to be able to hold their head up after a game. I used to say that when a game is over, and you see somebody that didn't know the outcome, I hope they couldn't tell by your actions whether you outscored an opponent or the opponent outscored you.
To me podseća na još jednu trojku koju je tata hteo da nam prenese. Ne kukaj. Ne prigovaraj. Ne nalazi izgovore. Samo izađi tamo, i šta god da radiš, uradi to kako najbolje umeš. Niko ne može više od toga. Pokušao sam i to da prenesem - moji protivnici vam neće reći - nikad nisam spominjao pobedu. Nikada ne spominjite pobedu. Moja je zamisao da možete izgubiti kada nadvladate nekog u igri. A možete i pobediti kad vas nadvladaju. Tako sam se osećao u raznim situacijama, u različitim vremenima. Samo sam želeo da mogu da drže glavu gore nakon utakmice. Govorio bih da kada se igra završi i vidite nekog ko ne zna rezultat, nadam se da po vašim radnjama ne bi mogli da kažu da li je protivnik nadvladao vas ili vi njega.
That's what really matters: if you make an effort to do the best you can regularly, the results will be about what they should be. Not necessarily what you'd want them to be but they'll be about what they should; only you will know whether you can do that. And that's what I wanted from them more than anything else. And as time went by, and I learned more about other things, I think it worked a little better, as far as the results. But I wanted the score of a game to be the byproduct of these other things, and not the end itself. I believe it was one great philosopher who said -- no, no -- Cervantes. Cervantes said, "The journey is better than the end." And I like that. I think that it is -- it's getting there. Sometimes when you get there, there's almost a let down. But it's the getting there that's the fun. As a basketball coach at UCLA, I liked our practices to be the journey, and the game would be the end, the end result. I liked to go up and sit in the stands and watch the players play, and see whether I'd done a decent job during the week. There again, it's getting the players to get that self-satisfaction, in knowing that they'd made the effort to do the best of which they are capable.
To je zaista bitno: ako se potrudite da redovno činite najbolje što možete, rezultati će otprilike biti kakvi bi i trebalo da budu. Nisu uvek nužno onakvi kakvi biste želeli da budu, ali će biti otprilike kakvi bi trebalo i samo vi ćete znati da li možete da uradite to. To sam od njih želeo više od bilo čega drugog. Kako je prolazilo vreme i kako sam učio više o drugim stvarima, mislim da je malo bolje funkcionisalo, što se rezultata tiče. Ali želeo sam da rezultat utakmice bude sporedni, a ne krajnji efekat ovih drugih stvari. Verujem da je to bio - jedan veliki filozof je rekao - ne, ne, Servantes. Servantes je rekao: "Putovanje je bolje od cilja". Sviđa mi se to. Mislim da je to - stižemo do toga. Ponekad kada dođete do toga, skoro da se razočarate. Ali stizanje do cilja je zabavno. Sviđale su mi se - kao trener košarke na UCLA voleo sam da treninzi budu putovanja a utakmica cilj. Krajnji rezultat. Voleo sam da odem i sednem na tribine i gledam igrače kako igraju i vidim da li sam tokom nedelje uradio solidan posao. Opet su igrači ti koji su zadovoljni sobom, znajući da su učinili napor da urade najbolje što mogu.
Sometimes I'm asked who was the best player I had, or the best teams. I can never answer that. As far as the individuals are concerned -- I was asked one time about that, and they said, "Suppose that you, in some way, could make the perfect player. What would you want?" And I said, "Well, I'd want one that knew why he was at UCLA: to get an education, he was a good student, really knew why he was there in the first place. But I'd want one that could play, too. I'd want one to realize that defense usually wins championships, and who would work hard on defense. But I'd want one who would play offense, too. I'd want him to be unselfish, and look for the pass first and not shoot all the time. And I'd want one that could pass and would pass.
Ponekad me pitaju koji je bio moj najbolji igrač ili tim. Nikada ne mogu da odgovorim, što se tiče pojedinaca. Jednom su me pitali to i rekli: "Recimo da na neki način možeš da stvoriš savršenog igrača. Šta bi želeo?" Rekao sam: "Želeo bih igrača koji zna zašto je na UCLA, da stekne obrazovanje, bude dobar student, zaista zna zašto je uopšte tu. Ali želeo bih igrača i koji zna da igra. Nekog koji bi shvatio da odbrana na kraju osvaja prvenstva, i koji bi radio naporno na odbrani. Ali i da igra i napad. Želeo bih da ne bude sebičan i da gleda da prvo doda a ne šutira stalno. Želeo bih igrača koji može i hoće da doda loptu.
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I've had some that could and wouldn't, and I've had some that would and could.
Imao sam neke koji su mogli a nisu hteli i neke koji su hteli a nisu mogli.
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So, yeah, I'd want that.
And I wanted them to be able to shoot from the outside. I wanted them to be good inside too.
Želeo sam da mogu da šutiraju spolja. A i da budu dobri iznutra.
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I'd want them to be able to rebound well at both ends, too. Why not just take someone like Keith Wilkes and let it go at that. He had the qualifications. Not the only one, but he was one that I used in that particular category, because I think he made the effort to become the best. There was a couple.
Želeo sam da mogu da skaču na oba kraja. Zašto da ne uzmemo nekog poput Kita Vilkisa i samo ga pustimo. Imao je kvalifikacije. Nije bio jedini ali sam ga naveo u toj kategoriji jer mislim da je učinio napor da postane najbolji [nejasno].
I mention in my book, "They Call Me Coach," two players that gave me great satisfaction, that came as close as I think anyone I ever had to reach their full potential: one was Conrad Burke, and one was Doug McIntosh. When I saw them as freshmen, on our freshmen team -- freshmen couldn't play varsity when I taught. I thought, "Oh gracious, if these two players, either one of them" -- they were different years, but I thought about each one at the time he was there -- "Oh, if he ever makes the varsity, our varsity must be pretty miserable, if he's good enough to make it." And you know, one of them was a starting player for a season and a half. The other one, his next year, played 32 minutes in a national championship game, Did a tremendous job for us. The next year, he was a starting player on the national championship team, and here I thought he'd never play a minute, when he was -- so those are the things that give you great joy, and great satisfaction to see.
Spominjem ovo u svojoj knjizi, "Zovu me trenerom". Dva igrača koja su mi donela veliko zadovoljstvo, koji su došli najbliže što mislim da neko može do svog punog potencijala: Konrad Berk i Dag Mekintoš. Kada sam ih video kao brucoše, u našem brucoškom timu - brucoši nisu mogli da igraju u prvom timu kada sam predavao. Pomislio sam: "O bože, ako ova dva igrača, bilo koji od njih", bili su na različitim godinama ali mislio sam to za svakog kada je bio tamo - "Oh, ako ikad dođe do prvog tima, oni mora da su mnogo očajni, ako je on dovoljno dobar da se progura." Jedan od njih je bio u prvoj postavi sezonu ipo. Drugi je bio - sledeće godine, igrao je 32 minuta u igri nacionalnog šampionata, i uradio je sjajan posao. Sledeće godine, bio je u prvom timu nacionalnog šampionata. A ja sam mislio da neće igrati ni minut, a on je - to su stvari koje vas jako obraduju i veliko je zadovoljstvo videti to.
Neither one of those youngsters could shoot very well. But they had outstanding shooting percentages, because they didn't force it. And neither one could jump very well, but they kept good position, and so they did well rebounding. They remembered that every shot that's taken, they assumed would be missed. I've had too many stand around and wait to see if it's missed, then they go and it's too late, somebody else is in there ahead of them. They weren't very quick, but they played good position, kept in good balance. And so they played pretty good defense for us. So they had qualities that -- they came close to -- as close to reaching possibly their full potential as any players I ever had. So I consider them to be as successful as Lewis Alcindor or Bill Walton, or many of the others that we had; there were some outstanding players.
Nijedan od njih nije mogao dobro da šutira. Ali imali su odlične procente šuta, jer ga nisu forsirali. Nijedan nije mogao dobro da skače, ali imali su - držali su dobru poziciju, i tako su i dobro skakali. Setili su se da za svaki pokušani šut treba da zamisle da je promašen. Imao sam ih puno koji bi stajali i čekali da vide da li će biti promašaj, onda odu i prekasno je. Neko drugi je ispred njih. Ako nisu bili brzi, ali su imali dobru poziciju, to je bila dobra ravnoteža. Tako da su igrali dobru odbranu za nas. Imali su osobine koje - došli su blizu toga - najbliže iskorišćavanju svog punog potencijala od svih igrača koje sam imao. Smatram ih jednako uspešnim kao Luisa Alsindora ili Bila Voltona, ili mnogo drugih koje smo imali. Imali smo neke sjajne igrače.
Have I rambled enough? I was told that when he makes his appearance, I was supposed to shut up.
Da li sam dovoljno brbljao? Rekli su mi da treba da ućutim kada se on pojavi.
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(Smeh)
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