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I grew up in Indiana. My first four years of elementary were in the gym where Coach Wooden went to high school.

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

Steve Alford

When I was a freshman and sophomore, I got booed every time I was put in the game. Then, in my junior and senior years, my dad got booed every time he took me out.

Steve Alford

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.

Steve Alford

The majority of the Big Ten towns are college towns. The colleges are kind of what run the towns.

Steve Alford

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

Steve Alford

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.

Steve Alford

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.

Steve Alford

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.

Steve Alford

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.

Steve Alford

I grew up in Indiana. My first four years of elementary were in the gym where Coach Wooden went to high school.

Steve Alford

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

Steve Alford

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.

Steve Alford

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

Steve Alford

I've been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am.

Steve Alford

Fans will come if you have a good product.

Steve Alford

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

Steve Alford

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.

Steve Alford