Ucla Quotations

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.

My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that.

I was studying acting, going to UCLA, selling real estate on the weekends

My best girlfriends are the girls I went to college with at UCLA.

I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.

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

Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.

The two places that I had most imprinted in my mind and in my memory were UCLA and Indiana. To play at one and coach at the other is unbelievable.

I'm a big fan of Coach Dorrell. I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style.

I was talking to Coach Wooden after I had signed at UCLA and over the summer, and we used to talk all the time. The thing is, talking to Bill Walton, once you throw in your two cents, he throws in the other 98 cents. He will not stop talking, I'll tell you what.

Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him

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.

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.

I definitely hope to attend UCLA in a year, and major in business.

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.

We're fine, but we did not play well (at UCLA and USC). It's early; we know what we didn't do. It's not rocket science. We'll be pretty fired up.

Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.

I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style.

No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then - I guess it's still the same way - you had to take an acting class.

Really, UCLA's a great place as well, but they don't have the kind of environment they have here. The fans here have a passion.

One of my favorite stories came from a UCLA administrator who had just come across some old records, ... There's a record there of John Wooden writing a check to the UCLA athletic department for a dollar and 50 cents to repay a couple of phone calls he made.

I don't know the people in Los Angeles understand the job UCLA is doing winning games with all those guys banged up. That's hard to do.

I thought we played excellent and we had some chances but didn't quite capitalize. The game was closer than the score, but credit UCLA for making the play at the plate in the third inning and getting the one key swing of the bat to win it.

I went to UCLA for a year and a quarter. There were too many students at UCLA interested in what I was interested in, and they couldn't accommodate all of us. I wasn't allowed to take voice or dance, only theater and acting. So I saved my money and, at 19, moved to New York.

I think they threw every single guy they had at me last night. Every time I touched the ball I had guys all over me. ... UCLA did a lot of double-teams. When that happens, I need to look for the open man quicker. They were real aggressive with their hands up. I had been doubled before. They did a good job rotating and cutting off the easy pass, but part of that is on me. I've got to get the ball out.

I said all along I felt all along it would come down to the last rotation and we would have to go out and hit our floor routines exceptionally well to win the meet. This Stanford team is a great team. They just beat UCLA and they tied us two years ago at nationals.

Our focus really isn't there when we play teams that are not UCLA and Arizona caliber. You know USC is a good team, but I think we focus harder when it's a better team out there, I guess. With four seniors we shouldn't do that. We shouldn't play to the level we think they are. Every team is good in this conference, and I think it's a lack of focus.

Our bottom of the order was responsible for our championships the last two years, ... Historically, this year's bottom of the order is doing what UCLA teams always do.

I'm so happy that we can share the many years of music and sketches from our shows with the students of UCLA and people interested in the entertainment industry,

You just can't say the top seeded people are going to win throughout this tournament. It hasn't happened through the conference season. UCLA is as vulnerable as anyone else, and that will make for an exciting Pac-10 Tournament.

We were very happy with how our team kept fighting during this game. The squad showed a lot of heart against a very dynamic UCLA team on their home field. Erin McLeod was spectacular for us in goal, but it was our total team effort that won us this victory tonight.

We definitely have to play very well to beat a great team like UCLA on their home floor. But I'm looking forward to the challenge and I know we're going to play well. It is really an honor to get a chance to play against a team that has so much tradition.

The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.

We've worked hard all year waiting for this. We knew it was going to come down to this situation, fighting for first until the end. We knew UCLA was going to be one of the top teams in the league.

UCLA was on fire. Because of our lack of depth, we had to play zone a lot. And then they would light it up.

UCLA understands what it is to play in this tournament and to have to win that first game. They came out with intensity and I don't think we had that intensity. I don't think we understood what it takes to take a game like this and leave it out on the floor.

UCLA plays with a winning mentality. They know how to win games. They have that attitude, an arrogance, to come up with wins like this one.

UCLA is just better. They really play well together, and they play very physical. They have a lot of weapons.

UCLA is a very tough to face, but one we are all excited to play. I know the girls are ready to give them a battle and come out with a victory.

UCLA is always tough. It's going to be our first time on the road. It's going to be tough but we just have to prepare and get rid of the mistakes that have been hurting us. We need to have a good week of practice and just get prepared the best we can.

UCLA is a dangerous team and I think the best thing we did is we stayed on top and kept pushing.

UCLA has three great guards (Noelle Quinn, Lisa Willis and Nikki Blue). They play well together.

UCLA has made improvements, and talent-wise they have always been good. They continue to have sound schemes and are disciplined.

UCLA has a very good offense and they're very balanced. Maurice Drew is an excellent player, their tight end (Lewis) is good and so is their quarterback.

UCLA has a very good offense and they're very balanced, ... Maurice Drew is an excellent player, their tight end (Lewis) is good and so is their quarterback.

UCLA had three weeks to get ready. You can't change your whole base defense, but you can put in some new looks. They were shifting a lot right before the snap. But when you've played together like we have, you develop that communication. We eventually figured it out. And we were already moving the ball anyway.

UCLA did not come ready to play. Once they got down, you could see they were acting like they were going to come back, but we were ready. We stayed composed and were able to shut down everything they like to do.

UCLA did not come ready to play, ... Once they got down, you could see they were acting like they were going to come back, but we were ready. We stayed composed and were able to shut down everything they like to do.

UCLA did exactly what they've been doing defend with great focus and team energy. They continue to improve. There wasn't any complacency.

UCLA did exactly what they've been doing - defend with great focus and team energy. They continue to improve. There wasn't any complacency.

UCLA did exactly what they've been doing -- defend with great focus and team energy. They continue to improve. There wasn't any complacency.

UCLA are undefeated national champions and Stanford were last year's runners-up so they are definitely favored to win.

We competed hard today, but UCLA just played better than we did. We got their pitcher on the ropes early, but we didn't capitalize and let him get back on a roll after the first couple of innings. We never were able to take that momentum back.

When I went to UCLA I was young, just 18 years old, ... I had an idea, but now that I'm older and really got to the know the playbook, coach Riley's scheme and everything has worked well for me.

We need to get some swagger, some confidence, back. We need to be getting into people defensively and having more of a presence on the court. UCLA is a tough one to open with, but I like where we're at right now.

This weekend will be a good test for our team. We need to beat squads like San Jose and Cal Poly. If we play with intensity then we should be able to compete with UCLA as well.

Through the years we've been a pretty good defensive team when we've had our guys healthy and playing. I guess we surprised UCLA too, then. Maybe we just had a lucky weekend, I don't know.

The reshaping of education through e-learning leads me to observe that international course-taking is on the horizon, ... Imagine students at UCLA taking courses at Oxford, and students in Tokyo learning physics from a professor at Duke.

I've been on the board of UCLA Film and TV School, and I went to UCLA. I realized that the same movie theater that was there when I went to school, 30 years later is the same movie theater in the same condition. There was an opportunity to refurbish an existing room, and I jumped at the opportunity.

I used to always brick, ... I used to always do like UCLA or Indiana late game, on the road, and I'll always miss.

Professor Robinson's passionate commitment to socially conscious theater has inspired thousands of UCLA students. She was a great teacher, a significant scholar and a life force for her colleagues.

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.

'The Who' created the Daltrey/Townshend Center at UCLA for teenage hospital patients with cancer. It's the only one of its kind.

There were definitely places where fouls could have been called, but UCLA did a nice job of not fouling on the shot. There may have been some bumps prior to, but for the most part they did a nice job of not fouling on the shot.

About 150 years ago it was time to talk about UC Berkeley and go Bears. About 100 years ago it was time to talk about UCLA and go Bruins. Today is the time to talk about UC Merced and go Bobcats.

It's always a good weekend when we play the Arizona schools. We need to focus on our game and do the little things that make up UCLA softball.

You think Duke, Kansas, Kentucky and obviously UCLA -- those are four of the greatest traditions of basketball around the country. Just to get the opportunity to go on the court and play there is going to be fun.

The Bixby Foundation is dedicated to ensuring the continued excellence of population studies and research at UCLA's School of Public Health. The creation of the Bixby Center will enable UCLA students to step up their efforts on behalf of women and their families worldwide.

Oh my God, I love UCLA so much. Their film school is great because it's unstructured, so there's a freedom to fail in there and just tell your story, and everybody makes a film. It's so important to have that freedom in film school because that's what you're there for: to learn and make a film.

It's very simple. The question is who owns the copyright. Ed Condren and I say the instructors do. So do UCLA Extension and OnlineLearning.net -- now. But in the bundle of rights which is called copyright is distribution rights. And the legal owner of the copyright has to have somehow assigned that right to someone -- either directly to OnlineLearning or indirectly via the university -- in order for OnlineLearning to have that right. In other words, how can two things be true: The instructor owns all the rights and OnlineLearning has some rights?

They were calling to check in on the coach, ... You have to remember his last year of coaching was 30 years ago, and his first year at UCLA was 1948. These were players from 30, 40, 50 years ago calling to check in. That goes way beyond X's and O's. He engaged their hearts. That's what's going on now. John Wooden has become America 's coach.

I'm not happy at all. I'm still thinking about those games against USC, UCLA and Stanford. For 30 seconds after the match I was satisfied. After this interview, I'm back to work.

I'm excited. UCLA is one of the best schools out there in both sports and academics.

I knew coming in that UCLA was going to score some points. There was no way we were going to just completely shut them down. They're a good football team.

I never did theater. I was a theater major at USC my first year because I didn't get into the film school. I was biding my time, hoping to be accepted to film school, and I ended up transferring to UCLA my sophomore year.

I know it's good for softball to see a team other than UCLA win the championship,

I just didn't think we were rushing the ball as well as we could have. UCLA seemed to have made a lot of good adjustments against our running game.

I don't know if the people in Los Angeles understand the job that UCLA is doing in keeping that team going.

It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.

At a time when Democratic leaders are pushing rationed care in a world of limited resources, Americans might wonder where the call for shared sacrifice is from illegal immigrant patients like those in Los Angeles getting free liver and kidney transplants at UCLA Medical Center. 'I'm just mad,' illegal alien Jose Lopez told the Los Angeles Times last year after receiving two taxpayer-subsidized liver transplants while impatiently awaiting approval for state health insurance.

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

All I know is, if we win out and UCLA loses, we all end up tied for first. No matter what, we've still got to win our two games.

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

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.

I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects are my students' projects that I act in or I do a cameo.

The hunger strike at UCLA led to hundreds of students actually studying the farm worker experience and Chicanos in the context of Latin America, whereas they would have been on the outside raising fists and banners. So I count that as activism inside the classroom.

My explosiveness, I really couldn't show it at UCLA. It's still there. It's always been there. It was not a lot of running. It was a half-court game. Coach Howland came from the Big East and so you know that's a grind out game.

I always bring it up to my lawyer every now and then. And another reason we have to revisit it is because there is a restoration going on right now for the film through UCLA and Sundance.

It isn't about what you do, but how you do it

Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings everyday.

Drink deeply from good books.

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others.

The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.

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.

Every day was a good day at UCLA.

Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.

Happiness begins where selfishness ends.