Steve Alford
Steve Alford
Stephen Todd Alfordis an American basketball coach and former player who is currently the head coach of the UCLA Bruins men's basketball team...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth23 November 1964
CityFranklin, IN
CountryUnited States of America
dealing direct handle impact life miss sound
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.
along experience extremely humbling
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.
fixed
If you keep your eyes fixed on Christ, He's going to reward you.
colleges ten towns
The majority of the Big Ten towns are college towns. The colleges are kind of what run the towns.
business
I don't know anything about the hotel business.
elementary four grew high
I grew up in Indiana. My first four years of elementary were in the gym where Coach Wooden went to high school.
competitor time
I've been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am.
fixed
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.
fans good job
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.
children dad gotta
My children see me being coach enough. I gotta make sure they see me being dad.
coming
Sometimes it's forgotten that players are coming to college to get a degree.
dreamed olympics playing
The Olympics is nothing I ever dreamed about. I dreamed about playing for Coach Knight and Indiana.
mind places ucla
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.
assume degree freshman seven
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.