Top 160 Ucla Quotes & Sayings

I almost went to UCLA, they were my third choice. But they only sort of wanted me.

I fell in love with acting while I was a student at UCLA.

I have a B.A. from UCLA. In ethnic studies.

That's why I'm here at UCLA - to help them win a national championship.

Ray Pearson, played for UCLA. He's a friend of mine.

UCLA is my heart, man. Crossroads changed my life, UCLA made my life.

My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.

For some reason as a kid growing up in Lubbock, Texas, I always thought I was going to go to UCLA. I think it was because they had such great sports teams, and it was in California, where the actors were. But even though I was talking about being an actor when I was young, I was first going to be a football player. My dream was "I'm going to go to UCLA and be a football player."

I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.

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.

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.

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.

When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

So, college was kind of the only option that I looked at, and I was fortunate to have great coaches when I was at UCLA. They helped me improve on and off the court.

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

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.

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

Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.

Both my children have degrees from UCLA.

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

At UCLA, I don't think I showed everything I can do. I just showed what I can do inside.

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!

It was always like there was no doubt in anybody's mind that I was going to UCLA, so once UCLA started recruiting me, everybody started pushing me there.

I will never leave UCLA and will stay at UCLA as long they will have me.

I love UCLA and the people at UCLA. Everybody is great.

To the UCLA students, alumni, and fans, I appreciate all of your unwavering support.

I was thrown into the spotlight pretty quickly at UCLA.

When I first met Hef, I was a co-ed at UCLA.

It still comes down to attracting players, and UCLA can attract players as well as any place in the country.

Going to UCLA was probably one of the best decisions I've ever made.

UCLA takes care of me. I'm a Bruin for life.

I lived in L.A. for a year when I was four - my dad was doing a sabbatical at UCLA - so it always remained quite a familiar place.

There's no question we made a couple mistakes there at UCLA at the very end.

When I was 18, I moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA.

I ended up going to NYU for film school - close to Pennsylvania - but we talked about what if I went to UCLA or USC, and my mom's whole world was caving in.

At UCLA, there will always be high expectations. That's why you want to play here or coach here.

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.

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

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.

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

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.

If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.

One of the very best things about being a coach or student-athlete at UCLA is if you need medical attention, you won't find any better place in the country than at the incomparable UCLA Medical Center.

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

My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I'd be right back living on the Upper West Side.

UCLA acknowledged this shift by bringing in Alex Haley (the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X) and Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice) as speakers.

Going to UCLA, as far as I'm concerned, afforded me two things. One was the advantage of meeting friends and getting to know a group of guys I hung out with, was chummy with. All of us eventually had success with film. Making films, cutting our own little movies together, 3 in the morning going out and shooting stuff, finding gels that people had thrown away, making our own lights. It was like a frat house for film geeks, the Pad O' Guys. That's what being at UCLA afforded me.

I could see myself coaching at the high school level, but I'd really love to coach at UCLA. That would be a dream for me.

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

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

I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.

Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.

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

I always liked UCLA.

I didn't really get comfortable until I got to UCLA, and I had to take an acting course because I was studying theater arts.

I studied theater at UCLA and wrote plays during my time there.

I was always fascinated by technology and wanted to understand it so when I went to UCLA I studied electrical engineering figuring they knew how things worked.