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" 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. "
Done
Go
Play
" 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. "
Think
Impact
Life
" 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. "
Perception
Man
Integrity
" 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. "
Look
Food
Day
" Fans will come if you have a good product. "
Fans
Come
You
" I don't know anything about the hotel business. "
Hotel
Business
About
" 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. "
Feel
Opportunity
Great
" If you keep your eyes fixed on Christ, He's going to reward you. "
Going
Eyes
Christ
" I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different. "
Great
Work
Got
" I grew up in Indiana. My first four years of elementary were in the gym where Coach Wooden went to high school. "
Gym
Coach
High School
" 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. "
Back
Born
High School
" 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. "
Basketball
Family
Coaching
" 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. "
Blessing
Career
Coaching
" 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. "
Legacy
Alone
Dreams
" 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. "
Reward
Christ
Eyes
" 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. "
Walk
School
Coach
" 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. "
Tradition
Blessed
Experience
" My children see me being coach enough. I gotta make sure they see me being dad. "
Me
Enough
See
" One of the things you don't usually mess with is happy. "
Happy
Things
You
" Sometimes it's forgotten that players are coming to college to get a degree. "
Forgotten
College
Degree
" 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. "
Good
Age
Change
" The majority of the Big Ten towns are college towns. The colleges are kind of what run the towns. "
Kind
College
Big
" The Olympics is nothing I ever dreamed about. I dreamed about playing for Coach Knight and Indiana. "
Indiana
Nothing
Playing
" There are certain people in our business that you don't replace - Bob Knight, Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzyewski, and you don't replace John Wooden, either. "
Business
You
Replace
" There are very few LeBron James and Kobe Bryants. "
LeBron James
Few
Very
" 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. "
Time
Game
Got
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