Ucla Quotes
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When I was at UCLA, the Harlem Globetrotters offered me a million dollars to come play for them. I turned it down because my education was just as important as playing ball.
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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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I was especially impressed with Pauley Pavilion [at UCLA campus ]. The floors hadn't been laid down yet, when they gave me the tour, each new room got my heart thumping. They even had a surgical operating room in case an athlete was severely injured.
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I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style.
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And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that
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I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.
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I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.
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Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.
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I hate to say anything that may hurt UCLA, but I can't be quiet when I see what the NCAA is doing to Jerry Tarkanian only because he has a reputation for giving a second chance to many black athletes other coaches have branded as troublemakers. The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!
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A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
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You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
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I definitely hope to attend UCLA in a year, and major in business.
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But all was not sunshine and Marvin Gaye songs. [UCLA] also recruited black students as part of a High Potential Program that was meant to bring diversity to the campus. Two of the students that were part of that program were Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr., both members of the Black Panther Party's Southern California Chapter.
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I believe it’s impossible to claim you have taught, when there are students who have not learned. With that commitment, from my first year as an English teacher until my last as UCLA basketball teacher/coach, I was determined to make the effort to become the best teacher I could possibly be, not for my sake, but for all those who were placed under my supervision.
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Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
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Coach John Wooden used seven players at UCLA. Coach Denny Crum used to say, 'The more moving parts you have, the greater the chance you have for a breakdown.' I think there's a lot of veracity to that.
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The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.
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Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.
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Drink deeply from good books.
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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
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Never did I want to call the first time-out during a game. Never. I wanted UCLA to come out and run our opponents so hard that they would be forced to call the first time-out just to catch their breath. At that first time-out the opponents would know, and we would know that they knew, who was in better condition. This has a psychological impact.
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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
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I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.
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I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
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When people ask me now if I miss coaching UCLA basketball games, the national championships, the attention, the trophies, and everything that goes with them, I tell them this: I miss the practices.
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In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation an effective sanction rather than a feckless joke--could cut crime and reduce prison populations simultaneously. Safer communities, in turn, might produce more hopeful and well-disciplined kids.
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The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
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I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.
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Happiness begins where selfishness ends.
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