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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Fans will come if you have a good product. "

" If you keep your eyes fixed on Christ, He's going to reward you. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't know anything about the hotel business. "

" 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. "

" I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different. "