Steve Alford quotes:

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  • Christian, non-Christian, we're going to miss the mark. We're going to make mistakes. How you handle those mistakes and get more fundamentally sound spiritually in dealing with those mistakes I think have a direct impact - not only on your spiritual life, but those around you.

  • Every person has a different view of another person's image. That's all perception. The character of a man, the integrity, that's who you are.

  • The two places that I had most imprinted in my mind and in my memory were UCLA and Indiana. To play at one and coach at the other is unbelievable.

  • Fans will come if you have a good product.

  • There are very few LeBron James and Kobe Bryants.

  • My children see me being coach enough. I gotta make sure they see me being dad.

  • I'm a Christian first. I'm a family guy second. As much as I like coaching, as much as I like basketball, it's third, fourth, or fifth down the line.

  • I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.

  • It's all about persevering. You know you're going to be tested. If you keep your eyes fixed on Christ, He's going to reward you.

  • That first group of Manchester players allowed me to enjoy coaching at a very young age that motivated me to do it. If it wasn't good, I might have made a career change.

  • It's our job to put a good product out there, and fans will come. If they see a good product, a good style, fans will come.

  • If you keep your eyes fixed on Christ, He's going to reward you.

  • I feel blessed that I had an opportunity to be in the Big Ten for four years as a player and be in the Big Ten as a coach for eight years. To get 12 years in a conference like the Big Ten - it's a first-class league with great towns and great fans.

  • Everything that UCLA stands for, it's top of the food chain. So you either look at those things as burdens or you look at them as blessings. From day one, I've told my staff we're going to look at it as a blessing and do everything we can to build champions.

  • I've said all along it's a humbling experience being at UCLA. Extremely proud, extremely blessed to be at an institution with all this tradition.

  • Sometimes it's forgotten that players are coming to college to get a degree.

  • You control what you do offensively, defensively. You're controlling who you play, how you want to play.

  • One of the things you don't usually mess with is happy.

  • We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.

  • When I played with Michael Jordan on the Olympic team, there was a huge gap between his ability and the ability of the other great players on that team. But what impressed me was that he was always the first one on the floor and the last one to leave.

  • You create shots for yourself by what you do without the ball more than what you do after you get it

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