Steve Alford Quotes

I get to work with the best and the brightest at UCLA. We get to recruit great kids, and that makes coaching very fun for me.

Basketball is my passion, and I love it, and I love to see my players succeed. I'm here for them and my children. That's my passion.

I know that not everybody gets to coach an NFL team, and I want to do that as well as I can all the time. That's my motivation. I want to help my players to be as good as they can be.

I coach at Rutgers University and help out there as a part-time assistant coach. I feel like the coach is kind of in me, and it would also be great exposure, so I'd be down for it, for sure.

I thank Manchester City for giving me the opportunity to train these amazing players.

I ain't get the opportunity to get coached until being a star.

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.

I've had influences from many people including the coaches and players I've worked with.

I understand how success is judged and calculated in the coaching profession. That's really all I care about. You go about this business a certain way. Everybody has a certain style and opportunities that are presented to them during your career. When it's over, I'll be judged by that. I care more about the people I work with.

'Mighty Ducks' was a great experience, and I don't shy away from that.

I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.

I've cut my teeth as a coach with some great head coaches and some great co-workers and I have been very lucky to have learned a lot of football from all of the above.

I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

Throughout my career, I was blessed with great teams and great teammates.

I've gotten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky.

To be on the same team with Orr was great because when I turned pro, nobody had more charisma.

He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.

There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.

And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.

The opportunity to coach Kerry Kittles I wouldn't give up for anything.

I was lucky enough to play with great platers Cameron Smith, Billy Slater, Darren Lockyer and that's where I learned about leadership.

You can only win if you have good players.

Whatever happens happens, but learning from the players at Chelsea is a great experience.