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We are a global sport. I mean, golf is obviously played all around the world. But when you have your National Championship, of course, everybody in America is rooting for an American. -- Paula Creamer
My biggest frustration with the Heisman is it's become the MVP of the national champion, or a team going to the National Championship game. That's what it's turned into. If you're not undefeated, you're out of the running. -- Doug Flutie
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
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
It's easier to win the National Championship than the SEC, ask Nick Saban. -- Steve Spurrier
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
There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach. -- Pat Summitt
To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky. -- Lou Holtz
It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship. -- Hale Irwin
Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in. -- Greg Norman
When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that. -- Duffy Daugherty
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
Seattle is very similar to Minneapolis. I like the culture; I like the people. I raced a bike and won a national championship on Lake Washington in 1977, so I've had a connection there for a long time. -- Greg LeMond
Somebody asked me - you know, how come it took you so long to win a national championship? And I said, 'I'm a slow learner; but you notice when I learn something, I have it down pretty good.' -- John Wooden
Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes. -- Derek Bok
The one I was driving for at the time, Nissan, they pulled out after they won the championship, because it was costing millions of pounds to do a national championship and ok, that might be ok when you're doing an international championship, but not for a national one. -- David Leslie
A lot of people talk about the Fab Five, and they were wonderful, one of the best teams you'll ever see in college basketball. But the '89 team is the best one to ever play at Michigan in my opinion because they won the national championship. Winning a championship is winning a championship. -- Trey Burke
Most coaches would consider leading a team to an Olympic gold medal a capper for a pretty good year. The same goes for winning an NCAA national championship. Or a FIBA world championship. Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke Blue Devils and Team USA, led teams to each of these honors... within about 24 months. -- Don Yaeger
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
Everything about my life is about winning a national championship -- Kyle Dake
Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game. -- Nick Saban
That's the whole goal, to win the national championship. You can't have a legacy without one. -- Seimone Augustus
If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year. -- Bobby Bowden
When you're are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. Its more important than that. -- Duffy Daugherty
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
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
I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition. -- Olga Korbut
In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There's nothing easy about winning a game in the National Football League, let alone winning a championship, things that we've done in the past. However, that's in the past. -- Rodney Harrison
Look, I won in high school, I won a national championship in college, I want to win one in the NBA. But winning a gold medal, I don't think anything can top that. -- Carmelo Anthony
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

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