National Championships Quotes

• Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

  Magic Johnson

  Inspiring, Basketball, Teamwork

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• If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.

  Bobby Bowden

  Football, Army, Hair

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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.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Ucla, Practice

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• Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game.

  Nick Saban

  Winning, Games, Championship

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• It’s easier to win the National Championship than the SEC, ask Nick Saban.

  Steve Spurrier

  Winning, Championship, Easier

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• To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.

  Lou Holtz

  Winning, Lucky, Littles

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• But I was always a bit of a gypsy, anyway. I spent five years at Oklahoma State, five years at Miami and moved on after winning the national championship, and five years with the Cowboys. So, I was ready to move on. We won back-to-back Super Bowls, and I felt that I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish.

  Jimmy Johnson

  Moving, Winning, Cowboy

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• Edwards said the greatest moment of his career was winning the national championship. The lowest moment (of my career) happens every time we lose to Utah.

  LaVell Edwards

  Time, Winning, Utah

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• I can honestly say that two weeks after the national championship year, I'd forgotten about it and started laying the groundwork for spring practice. And so every year, that's been the thing that's motivated me. . . .

  LaVell Edwards

  Spring, Years, Practice

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• Searching for funds to continue my skating career when I was 17, I called the Women's Sports Foundation in New York. The intern who answered the phone suggested that I might be a great candidate for the Travel and Training fund, and she sent me an application form. I applied for a grant. With the funds I was awarded, I bought a new pair of skates and a plane ticket to the 1988 National Championships, where I achieved my highest national finish. Four years later, I won the gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Leadership, Sports, New York

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• As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks. I used to get mad because nobody else would play Miami. Notre Dame would play them, then drop them. Florida dropped them. Penn State dropped them. We would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship. I didn’t want to play them, either, but I had to play them. That’s why I said, 'When I die, They’ll say, ‘At least he played Miami.'

  Bobby Bowden

  Winning, Florida, Play

  "The case for FSU's dynasty" by Mark Schlabach, www.espn.com. December 25, 2012.

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• At Alabama, our players don't win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships.

  Bear Bryant

  Team, Winning, Player

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• Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in.

  Greg Norman

  Thinking, Play, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Bill Walton

  Team, School, Eight

  "Seven of the Dirtiest Teams in College Basketball History" By Sean Cunningham, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Everything about my life is about winning a national championship

  Kyle Dake

  Winning, Life Is, Championship

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• I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.

  Shawn Johnson

  Pain, Struggle, Games

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• During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

  Bobby Knight

  Team, Winning, Texas

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• Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Team, Winning, Two

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Winning, Thinking

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Passion, Winning

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• The first time I managed to pick up a basketball I knew I was destined to lead the UK to another National championship. ... Even now, so many years later, I still believe Kentucky will go undefeated in March & win everything.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Basketball, Believe

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• What are you doing here? Tell me why you are here. If you are not here to win a national championship, you're in the wrong place. You boys are special. I don't want my players to be like other students. I want special people. You can learn a lot on the football field that isn't taught in the home, the church, or the classroom. There are going to be days when you think you've got no more to give and then you're going to give plenty more. You are going to have pride and class. You are going to be very special. You are going to win the national championship for Alabama.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Football, Believe

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• Our dad made everything competitive for me and brother. It always was a world championship, a national championship, Big 10 championship. It was always at stake in everything we did.

  John Harbaugh

  Brother, Dad, World

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• So, yeah, I'm going to try to win the national championship next year. But I'm not going to kill myself doing it. I'm not going to kill my players either. You really start to realize there's a lot more to what we're trying to do then winning games

  Geno Auriemma

  Basketball, Winning, Player

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• People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, People, Cookies

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