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I love Greg Monroe.
Stan Van Gundy
Love
Monroe
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
Me
School
Walk
Past
Final
Statue
Unbelievable
Guy
Winning
Been
His
Years
Wooden
Coach
Elementary
Elementary School
Thing
Championship
The majority of the Big Ten towns are college towns. The colleges are kind of what run the towns.
Steve Alford
College
Big
Kind
Run
Colleges
Ten
Towns
Majority
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.
Steve Alford
Family
First
Down
Christian
Guy
Like
Line
Family Guy
Fifth
Much
Coaching
Second
Fourth
Third
Basketball
If you keep your eyes fixed on Christ, He's going to reward you.
Steve Alford
You
Eyes
Reward
Christ
He
Fixed
Going
Your
Keep
Fans will come if you have a good product.
Steve Alford
Good
You
Fans
Will
Come
Product
I grew up in Indiana. My first four years of elementary were in the gym where Coach Wooden went to high school.
Steve Alford
School
First
High
Indiana
High School
Gym
Were
Years
Up
Wooden
Where
Grew
Coach
Elementary
Four
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
Time
Me
Game
Every
Every Time
Took
Out
He
Put
Sophomore
Got
Freshman
Years
Junior
Senior
Then
Dad
My children see me being coach enough. I gotta make sure they see me being dad.
Steve Alford
Me
Enough
See
Make
Sure
Gotta
Being
Children
Coach
Dad
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.
Steve Alford
Life
Spiritual
You
Mistakes
Christian
Think
Mark
Those
Impact
Direct
Spiritual Life
More
Only
Spiritually
Miss
Make
Around
Dealing
How
Sound
Handle
Get
Going
Your
Fundamentally
Sometimes it's forgotten that players are coming to college to get a degree.
Steve Alford
Sometimes
Degree
College
Coming
Get
Forgotten
Players
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
Will
Degree
Assume
Back
Seven
Later
Completed
See
About
Only
Come
Freshman
Go
His
Years
Off
Five
Get
Done
Six
Happening
Professional
Play
Basketball
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.
Steve Alford
Good
Me
Change
Age
Made
First
Young
Group
Enjoy
Allowed
Motivated
Very
Manchester
Young Age
Might
Coaching
Players
Career
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.
Steve Alford
Blessing
Thought
Tremendous
Those
Would
Dreamed
Never
Most
Make
Going
Happen
Coach
Coaching
Things
Career
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.
Steve Alford
School
Back
High
Born
High School
Go
Years
Up
Just
Wooden
Where
Grew
Literally
Then
Coach
Coached
Roots
Miles
Dad
Four
You control what you do offensively, defensively. You're controlling who you play, how you want to play.
Steve Alford
You
Control
Controlling
Defensively
How
Want
Who
Play
I've been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am.
Steve Alford
Time
Long
Long Time
Competitor
More
Nobody
Am
Been
Than
Basketball
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
Good
Fans
Will
Job
Style
Our
Out
See
Put
Come
Product
I've been a lucky guy.
Steve Mariucci
Guy
Been
Lucky
Lucky Guy
This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.
Steve Mariucci
People
Big
Before
Way
Say
Athletics
Guys
More
League
Than
Died
Getting
Different
Different Reasons
Who
Reasons
Many
Ever
Whether you're a quarterback and you just threw a pick, or you're a corner and you just got beat for a touchdown, you've got to have a short-term memory, shake it off and play the next play.
Steve Mariucci
You
Memory
Corner
Shake
Threw
Touchdown
Beat
Pick
Got
Quarterback
Off
Just
Whether
Short-Term
Next
Play
So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching.
Steve Spurrier
You
Believe
Determines
Had
League
Well
How
Years
Really
Coaching
Your
Many
Play
Players
Our stadium seats over 80,000, and we sell all of our tickets.
Steve Spurrier
Our
Over
Tickets
Sell
Stadium
Seats
Our coaches want to be a part of South Carolina football when they win it for the first time. When they win the division, when they win the SEC, win a major bowl game, etc. The opportunities to do it all for the first time here make it extra special.
Steve Spurrier
Time
Game
Win
Opportunities
First
Extra
Our
Carolina
Football
Division
Part
Major
Bowl
Make
First Time
South
South Carolina
Want
Etc
Coaches
Special
SEC
Here
But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see.
Steve Spurrier
Passion
Will
Job
Fire
Demanding
Think
Our
Respond
See
Guys
More
Get
Done
Little
Coaches
Players
Need
The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.
Stu Jackson
You
Circumstances
Object
Throw
Message
Official
Any
Any Circumstances
Just
Cannot
Here
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