Words matter. These are the best Steve Alford Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I’ve been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am.
I just go back to my roots. I was literally born 26 miles from Martinsville High School where Coach Wooden grew up, and then my dad coached there for four years.
It’s been an unbelievable thing for me to walk Bruin Walk and walk past Coach Wooden’s statue, a guy that when I was in elementary school, it’s Coach Wooden winning his final championship, his 10th in 12 years.
A freshman has only about 25% of his degree completed. They go off to play professional basketball, and to assume they will come back and get the degree done five, six, seven years later, I don’t see that happening.
You control what you do offensively, defensively. You’re controlling who you play, how you want to play.
The majority of the Big Ten towns are college towns. The colleges are kind of what run the towns.
I don’t know anything about the hotel business.
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.
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.
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.
I never dreamed I would coach at UCLA. It was not one of those things in my coaching career I thought would happen. It’s a tremendous blessing, and I’m going to make the most of it.
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.
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 never in my wildest dreams thought I would get even one play at Indiana, let alone 25 years later, walk Bruin Walk, walk UCLA where Coach Wooden built his legacy.
Fans will come if you have a good product.
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.
I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.
