Quotes from Steve Alford

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.

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.

The Olympics is nothing I ever dreamed about. I dreamed about playing for Coach Knight and Indiana.

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

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.