Ucla Basketball Quotes

#1. I have always believed that cowards never make history, history is created by people with courage and wisdom. Courage is individual, wisdom comes with experience. - Author: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#2. It's intense in every sport. No matter what, USC vs. UCLA is crazy. Especially when it comes down to football and basketball, it's just nuts. - Author: Akeem Ayers

#3. Freudism and all it has tainted with its grotesque implications and methods, appear to me to be one of the vilest deceits practiced by people on themselves and on others. I reject it utterly, along with a few other medieval items still adored by the ignorant, the conventional, or the very sick. - Author: Vladimir Nabokov

#4. I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us. - Author: Aldrich Ames

#5. People have a pathway to citizenship right now- It's to abide by the immigration laws, and if they have a family relationship, if they have a job skill that allows them to do that, they can obtain citizenship. - Author: Bob Goodlatte

#6. I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney. In that I really like to make people happy. - Author: Thomas Kinkade

#7. Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan ... and later came to football. - Author: Leigh Steinberg

#8. Gratitude turns what we have into enough. - Author: Melody Beattie

#9. You turn me on." He cups my face, brushing my hair away from my eyes and a tear off my cheek."
"God, you turn me on. You're driving me crazy. I want you to need my hands on you. Do you? - Author: Penelope Douglas

#10. When I did 'The Great Escape,' I kept thinking, 'If they were making a movie of my life, that's what they'd call it - the great escape.' - Author: Steve McQueen

#11. Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates. - Author: Richard Brookhiser

#12. Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky. - Author: Rabih Alameddine

#13. From the moment she'd first seen him in the Fontaine ballroom, she'd been lost. The passionate kiss a week later had destroyed her. Even now she could feel the heat of his expert lips against hers, and the remembrance of his taste made her mouth water. - Author: Sylvia Day

#14. I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don't draw attention to me in any kind of peacockish way. - Author: Charlie Siem

#15. Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track. - Author: Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#16. Look at me, kitten." I did and felt safe. Deacon wouldn't let anything happen to me. "Who do you see?" he asked. "My master." "I have you, darling." He gripped my chin tightly. "I have you. - Author: C.D. Reiss

#17. The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower - Author: Christina Rossetti

#18. The paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous - Author: Martin Luther

#19. 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. - Author: John Wooden

#20. I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no. - Author: Bill Walton

#21. There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs. Michigan has Michigan State, California has UCLA, North Carolina has Duke. It's Kentucky throughout this whole state, and that's what makes us unique. - Author: John Calipari

#22. Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts. - Author: Bill Walton

#23. Well, you've got a full load of torpedoes and bullets, three Martian warships trailing you, one angry old lady in tea withdrawal, and a Martian Marine who could probably kill you with your own teeth. What do you do? - Author: James S.A. Corey