Success In The Movie Hoosiers

One thing that everyone wants is success. Success is something anyone can achieve, if they put their best effort into it. Success is one of the most critical elements to so many events throughout someone’s lifetime. Although it may sound so simple to obtain, it can actually be difficult. The reason that it could be hard, is the fact that there are so many components to find success.
The definition of success can be different for everyone based on how they view the word. To me, success is doing all you can do to try to come out on top. A scenario of this would be during a basketball, your team is down by 12 points, everyone is running the fastest they can, shooting as accurate as they can, and supporting one another as much as they can.

Even with all their best efforts, the team still ends up losing by 2 points.
Three big points to achieve success are cooperation, faith, and self-control. Cooperation is being able to share ideas and information and also listening to others input. If a team has no sense of cooperation, then they won’t work together. If every single person on that team is too stubborn to try to work with others, then they will fail at any kind of competition thrown at them. Faith is one thing that I truly believe is important. Having faith is a big part of my life, and a lot of my friends. Faith is having complete trust and confidence in someone or something, for example God. John Wooden was a strong follower of Jesus Christ, and he set the example for his team. By believing in God, gives you more confidence. Knowing that he is always with you and always giving you strength to do all you can is one of the best feelings ever. Praying before every game is one of the best ways to get your team hyped up, because they know that he is there watching, keeping people safe, and giving everyone strength. Another important element to success is self-control. Having self-control is crucial because everyone needs to be able to keep their emotions under control, have common sense and good judgement, and be able to self discipline. The people on the team that get angry over the littlest things, over exaggerate someone else’s mistake, or are overconfident in themselves, are some of the worst people. They never care for other players and only worry about themselves, and that is something that will destroy a team very quickly. All of the other elements from John Wooden’s pyramid of success are still important, but i believe that every player should automatically have cooperation, faith, and self-control, even after high school.
In the movie Hoosiers there were many successful things that had happened.

One example was when the character Ollie had became an actual member of the team instead of the team manager. In one of the games, Ollie had been put in because one of the starters wouldn’t listen to the coach so he was benched. With ollie being so experienced, he was not very good at all. By some great chance, he got a shooting foul. The team was down and this was the only chance to win. He managed to make both free throws! The clock then ran out and the whole crowd ran out there and carried him around. The look on his face was priceless. You could see how happy and excited he was to be able to help his team win an important game, it is something he’ll never forget. This was similar to the state championship game that happened both in the movie and in real life with Bobby Plump, but this game was obviously much more important. The score was super close, 30-30, the final seconds of the last quarter. Bobby managed to drain a 2 point shot and won the game for himself, his team, and his town. Every single fan of the Milan team roared with excitement while congratulating every player. Every one had the biggest smiles and probably tears of joy. To this day, all the remaining players with us on earth still remember vividly of what happened that day in

1954.
Living in a small town, with a competitive high school, there are definitely ways to achieve success.

One time I had felt success was during my band class, as a percussionist. In fifth grade, I was the only person in the percussion section. Mrs. Lull, my band teacher for that time, had saw that I had the ability to be good. She decided to give me a piece of music that required drumset. Of course, I was terrified. I was the little chubby fifth grader walking over to the high school set up to play the drumset. After that concert a few people had recognized that I had lots of potential. I was a shy kid, still to this day, so I never tried to make myself known. As the years went on, I got better and more and more people saw my ability to play the drums. I have been first chair for four years, got into tri-county honors band and been drumline section leader for the past three years. Over time, I had been given the nickname “Legend” by all the upperclassmen (mainly Joseph Skiles), because of how good I am. I have to say, even after all those things I’ve accomplished, I would have to say that the time I felt the best was when Luke Koepf had told me that he approved of me, and that I was second best only to him. That feeling is one I will never forget, I went to bed that night with a smile on my face knowing I made

it.
As an individual, you can create success working hard to achieve the goals you have set. The only way to get things in life is to get up and work for it, not sit on your couch and wait for a miracle. With that said, success is not some kind of miracle at hand. Having determination to achieve success is one element that I believe everyone needs. You must be prepared to go through any hardship or obstacle in order to obtain success, you can just go through life “winging it”.
To wrap things up, success is a major part to anything in life. To be successful, you must know the elements that are involved. John Wooden’s triangle of success is a reference that more people should look into. It’s just a simple diagram that can be very useful throughout any situation for the duration of your life. Even if success can be difficult to obtain, it’s not impossible to obtain.