Steve Alford (Stephen Todd Alford) Quotes

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

Steve Alford

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• There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • World
  • Girl

• I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Music
  • Long
  • Care

• I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Think
  • Back
  • Take

• Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Years
  • Order
  • Stock

• Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Help
  • Gift

• I had people at Perrysburg High School in my life in Perrysburg who believed in me and told me I could do anything I wanted too, and I foolishly believed them.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • People
  • Life
  • School

• They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Parents
  • Day
  • Start

• With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • World
  • Energy
  • Change

• It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Myself
  • End

• The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Trouble

• We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • House
  • Small
  • Air

• All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Give
  • Compromise
  • Surrender

• Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Black
  • Fear

• In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Bad
  • Responsibility
  • Admit

• I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Children
  • Age

• When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Good
  • Food
  • Diet

• The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Government
  • Back
  • Determined

• Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.

  

  Matthieu Ricard
  • Mind
  • Peace

• Me and my buddies are all like brothers. So it's okay for us to say 'I love you' or whatever. It's always cool. I think that comes from my dad. That's just the way he always was.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Dad
  • Cool

• We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.

  

  Clara Zetkin

• I made a different decision to send my children to the local state school.

  

  Johann Lamont
  • Different
  • Children
  • School

• I'm a freewheeling flower-child falling down the stairs constantly.

  

  Ben Hopkins
  • Flower

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

  

  Steve Alford
  • Children
  • Dad
  • Coach