National Championships Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Everything about my life is about winning a national championship

  Kyle Dake

  Winning, Life Is, Championship

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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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• 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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• 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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