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It feels like we just won the Pac-10 championship.
NATALIE JONES We don't know what part of an animal it is. But she'll be in there frying it up. Let's just say she ...
EETISHA RIDDLE Every time I open her door, she's there on her bed with all her books spread out everywhere. She stu...
EETISHA RIDDLE At first it was hard to understand her, but now she's totally got everything.
EETISHA RIDDLE Last year we probably wouldn't have cared too much about the (Texas) loss because it was just one of...
EETISHA RIDDLE I was thinking, 'Lord, please help this ball go in. The clock was running down and I didn't have any...
EETISHA RIDDLE The goal of this year is to win an NCAA Championship. We won the ACC [Championship] the past two yea...
DOUG STEWART I know it probably sounds like we won a championship or something, but I feel good.
FRED TAYLOR When we won the national championship (in 2000), it was an incredible run and an incredible week, bu...
TOM IZZO Everyone says that you won a national championship for girls, and it doesn't mean very much. But thi...
COURTNEY ASDOURIAN![]()
We did have a guy last year, Jonas Jacobson ['05], who won a top attorney award at the national cham...
TOM BROWN The one I was driving for at the time, Nissan, they pulled out after they won the championship, beca...
DAVID LESLIE In 1955-56, Saint Joseph's won the first Big Five championship, compiled a 23-6 overall record, ...
JACK RAMSAY Rice's pitching staff fell apart the year after they won the national championship. You just don't k...
AUGIE GARRIDO I see a scenario where Bruce would be paid in that ballpark. Tubby has won a national championship. ...
MIKE HAMILTON![]()
They missed a field goal at the end that could have tied it up. That was probably the most dramatic ...
BOBBY BOWDEN We're adding a coach to our staff who has won three national championships. He brings a championship...
BOB CAROLIS We're adding a coach to our staff who has won three national championships. He brings a championship...
BOB DE CAROLIS It seems this topic comes up every year on the conference call since Syracuse won the national champ...
KELVIN SAMPSON A national championship. That's it.
CAT OSTERMAN I feel very fortunate to have won this one. It seems like we are being tested every time we reach a ...
JANICE CHARLES Each year we go into the season and our main goal is to win the Big Ten championship and the nationa...
A.J. HAWK It's all the same to me. I'm enjoying this just as much as if I had won it individually. It's a nati...
LAURA COBLE We've got high expectations this year. We like to think we're going to play for a national champions...
ELLIOTT AVENT After Ashanti Jones hit that game winning shot the stands emptied onto the floor. It was like we had...
CHRISTY NALL We could be a national championship-caliber team.
GILBERT BROWN I remember it like it was yesterday. Nine years of age, Chattanooga, Tennessee. We were entered to t...
LENNY SIMPSON I'm a big Texas [football] fan, and after they won [the national championship] I shaved my head into...
COREY CAMPBELL His message was that every game is tough and, yeah, we finished undefeated and, yeah, we won the nat...
MATT LEINART![]()
Seattle is very similar to Minneapolis. I like the culture; I like the people. I raced a bike and wo...
GREG LEMOND I don't feel like we were the bad guys. We knew George Mason was a good team. One of our goals was t...
LEE HUMPHREY I knew my dad won the first championship for Manti, and I knew my grandpa won a state championship. ...
KOLBY BRADLEY We started four sophomores that year and we played in a national tournament in Tennessee. When we we...
TOMMY ALDRIDGE Of course it is nothing like the old Scottish rally in my day, when we used to race right up to Inve...
DAVID HIGGINS It'd be OK if went .500 and we gave it everything we got, ... But I want the national championship...
DAVID POLLACK We see it's there. It's hard not to think like 'Aw, national championship!' but we've just got to st...
BILL WALKER It's like a mini-national championship with the quality of the teams that will be there.
BRYAN FETZER Florence ran a great race, she's such a team player. After Jenny ( Tank ) had that fall in the first...
KURT SMITZ Hamburg celebrated like they had already won the championship. But we are still top and let's see wh...
OLIVER KAHN We have not won the Championship for more than 30 years and it is something we really want to do.
PAUL TERRY![]()
I also said that if he won the PGA Championship I would make him my first alternate and still have h...
JACK NICKLAUS Obviously it's great anytime you can win a conference championship, but we have to put it in the per...
JOEY SCRIVANO![]()
Some anthems are great for sports. You've got the Russian national anthem... 'O Canada,'...
GEORGE VECSEY![]()
I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, ...
OLGA KORBUT That motivates me and Mike, ... Me and Justin and a lot of freshmen came out here like, 'We can win ...
DERRICK WILLIAMS You have a bunch of guys where a couple have won a national championship, and the freshmen are from ...
BRETT BUCKTOOTH We haven't won a league championship in 18 years, so it was important for us to win tonight.
LAUREN ROSCOE A lot of people talk about the Fab Five, and they were wonderful, one of the best teams you'll e...
TREY BURKE I wanted to win an SEC championship and a national championship. Those are the main goals.
CHAD KELLY It seemed to ignite us. It got everyone excited in the dugout, too. Maybe it was the excitement we n...
BILL MASSE![]()
I think my most memorable win was in 1979 when I won the SCCA National Championship at a race down i...
PAUL NEWMAN Last year they won the national championship, this year they lost six players, but they're still pla...
IVAN RADENOVIC![]()
Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in.
GREG NORMAN I'm sure it means a lot to the public schools for us to be in the championship game. But that's not ...
REIDAR JENSEN As a singer, I have won the highest honours in China. Actually I am like the panda: we are both nati...
PENG LIYUAN How good is this defense? Man, we're champions. We said we couldn't say anything until we won a cham...
DEXTER JACKSON We're not satisfied and we won't be until the very end where we're hosting that national championshi...
DAVID LOWRY![]()
I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
BOB COUSY There's a great buzz here, but there's nothing like a football game day. I don't care if we win the ...
ANDY CULPEPPER We treated it like our championship game.
KIM INSALACO It means everything now. Our ultimate goal is to win a national championship. We took a big step mak...
ALISON BALES [Winning] the national championship is really one of our goals.
COLLIN WALLACE They needed to choose this championship or the national games.
LUO XUEJUAN Our ultimate goal is to get to the (national) championship.
KATIE SCHRADER![]()
It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
HALE IRWIN We won the conference championship, made it to the Upper State semifinals and won two playoff games ...
JOEL ALLEN![]()
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma:...
WINSTON CHURCHILL We have a new team and our ranking [is based off the] impression of the past and the championship th...
JANUSZ BEDNARSKI We were disappointed because it was definitely a winnable game. Nobody came out with the drive that ...
DEREK DENNIS We know we can compete for a Big East title and a national championship. We have confidence in each ...
LEVANCE FIELDS We had big hopes of winning the national championship, ... and those were basically shot. Our dreams...
DAVID MACKLIN I told the guys before the game that we had already won the district championship, but this is a dif...
DENNIS HOGUE Playing in the national championship game is priceless in many ways.
MARK FARLEY I'd give up having the most wins for that national championship.
DENNIS ROLAND![]()
I'm proud of the fact that about 90 percent of the guys on this team have never won a championship a...
CHRIS STEWART We won the county baseball championship four years in a row and were in the state playoffs each year...
PAT ADKISON They are trying to take something off our championship. But they are not going to be able to. We won...
ANTONIO LOPES The most unexpected moment about the visit was when we saw that Albert was wearing his championship ...
JACK HUCKEL We're not going to try to win the national championship in the first game. We really believe it's ab...
CASSANDRA YANCY The only thing that could be better is if it won a world championship for my team.
BONZI WELLS I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the...
KIRBY SMART Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do tha...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI We won a world championship with some high-maintenance ballplayers and he handled Barry Bonds (in Pi...
DAVE DOMBROWSKI I remember watching that national championship game (against Kansas) at my home. He was running the ...
DOMINIQUE KIRK I think the way we've structured it with the four games plus the national championship will be a pos...
TOM HANSEN We're on a page now where we want to be the top team in the nation. We want to win a national champi...
LANCE WATSON Final Four and National Championship T-shirts are already ordered. I'm crossing my fingers that we c...
LYNNE VAUGHAN Here's my feeling. If he wins the Heisman Trophy, that probably means we win the national championsh...
CHARLIE WEIS![]()
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of r...
WASHINGTON IRVING It was like a championship game, it was that kind of atmosphere today. Either team could've won. All...
GREG CHANDLER We'll see tomorrow whether or not we can contend for a national championship. We need to come out an...
TOM PETERSON The first two years were rough, and this year's better. But we still are working to win a national c...
BRADY QUINN The last couple of years was to put ourselves in a position to win a national championship. That was...
ROBBIE EARL We were 14 points away last year from being in the BCS national championship. We've got to somehow f...
CHRIS RUMPH The second half, we seemed like we picked up the pressure more and once we did, it seemed like it sl...
ED ANDES I feel like I worked real hard throughout my three years to get where I'm at now. It comes second to...
EDDIE MILLER This is huge. I feel like we haven't lost momentum after the national championship, we've gained it....
BEV KEARNEY He really wanted to win a national championship. He really did.
DOUG BIBBY It seemed like the clock was not moving. But, I had a feeling of pride for what the team had accompl...
BILL MANDIGO We knew we should have won the first game. You want to win the conference title, but the goal for bo...
LONNIE LUCAS
NATALIE JONES We don't know what part of an animal it is. But she'll be in there frying it up. Let's just say she ...
EETISHA RIDDLE Every time I open her door, she's there on her bed with all her books spread out everywhere. She stu...
EETISHA RIDDLE At first it was hard to understand her, but now she's totally got everything.
EETISHA RIDDLE Last year we probably wouldn't have cared too much about the (Texas) loss because it was just one of...
EETISHA RIDDLE I was thinking, 'Lord, please help this ball go in. The clock was running down and I didn't have any...
EETISHA RIDDLE The goal of this year is to win an NCAA Championship. We won the ACC [Championship] the past two yea...
DOUG STEWART I know it probably sounds like we won a championship or something, but I feel good.
FRED TAYLOR When we won the national championship (in 2000), it was an incredible run and an incredible week, bu...
TOM IZZO Everyone says that you won a national championship for girls, and it doesn't mean very much. But thi...
COURTNEY ASDOURIAN
We did have a guy last year, Jonas Jacobson ['05], who won a top attorney award at the national cham... TOM BROWN The one I was driving for at the time, Nissan, they pulled out after they won the championship, beca...
DAVID LESLIE In 1955-56, Saint Joseph's won the first Big Five championship, compiled a 23-6 overall record, ...
JACK RAMSAY Rice's pitching staff fell apart the year after they won the national championship. You just don't k...
AUGIE GARRIDO I see a scenario where Bruce would be paid in that ballpark. Tubby has won a national championship. ...
MIKE HAMILTON
They missed a field goal at the end that could have tied it up. That was probably the most dramatic ... BOBBY BOWDEN We're adding a coach to our staff who has won three national championships. He brings a championship...
BOB CAROLIS We're adding a coach to our staff who has won three national championships. He brings a championship...
BOB DE CAROLIS It seems this topic comes up every year on the conference call since Syracuse won the national champ...
KELVIN SAMPSON A national championship. That's it.
CAT OSTERMAN I feel very fortunate to have won this one. It seems like we are being tested every time we reach a ...
JANICE CHARLES Each year we go into the season and our main goal is to win the Big Ten championship and the nationa...
A.J. HAWK It's all the same to me. I'm enjoying this just as much as if I had won it individually. It's a nati...
LAURA COBLE We've got high expectations this year. We like to think we're going to play for a national champions...
ELLIOTT AVENT After Ashanti Jones hit that game winning shot the stands emptied onto the floor. It was like we had...
CHRISTY NALL We could be a national championship-caliber team.
GILBERT BROWN I remember it like it was yesterday. Nine years of age, Chattanooga, Tennessee. We were entered to t...
LENNY SIMPSON I'm a big Texas [football] fan, and after they won [the national championship] I shaved my head into...
COREY CAMPBELL His message was that every game is tough and, yeah, we finished undefeated and, yeah, we won the nat...
MATT LEINART
Seattle is very similar to Minneapolis. I like the culture; I like the people. I raced a bike and wo... GREG LEMOND I don't feel like we were the bad guys. We knew George Mason was a good team. One of our goals was t...
LEE HUMPHREY I knew my dad won the first championship for Manti, and I knew my grandpa won a state championship. ...
KOLBY BRADLEY We started four sophomores that year and we played in a national tournament in Tennessee. When we we...
TOMMY ALDRIDGE Of course it is nothing like the old Scottish rally in my day, when we used to race right up to Inve...
DAVID HIGGINS It'd be OK if went .500 and we gave it everything we got, ... But I want the national championship...
DAVID POLLACK We see it's there. It's hard not to think like 'Aw, national championship!' but we've just got to st...
BILL WALKER It's like a mini-national championship with the quality of the teams that will be there.
BRYAN FETZER Florence ran a great race, she's such a team player. After Jenny ( Tank ) had that fall in the first...
KURT SMITZ Hamburg celebrated like they had already won the championship. But we are still top and let's see wh...
OLIVER KAHN We have not won the Championship for more than 30 years and it is something we really want to do.
PAUL TERRY
I also said that if he won the PGA Championship I would make him my first alternate and still have h... JACK NICKLAUS Obviously it's great anytime you can win a conference championship, but we have to put it in the per...
JOEY SCRIVANO
Some anthems are great for sports. You've got the Russian national anthem... 'O Canada,'... GEORGE VECSEY
I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, ... OLGA KORBUT That motivates me and Mike, ... Me and Justin and a lot of freshmen came out here like, 'We can win ...
DERRICK WILLIAMS You have a bunch of guys where a couple have won a national championship, and the freshmen are from ...
BRETT BUCKTOOTH We haven't won a league championship in 18 years, so it was important for us to win tonight.
LAUREN ROSCOE A lot of people talk about the Fab Five, and they were wonderful, one of the best teams you'll e...
TREY BURKE I wanted to win an SEC championship and a national championship. Those are the main goals.
CHAD KELLY It seemed to ignite us. It got everyone excited in the dugout, too. Maybe it was the excitement we n...
BILL MASSE
I think my most memorable win was in 1979 when I won the SCCA National Championship at a race down i... PAUL NEWMAN Last year they won the national championship, this year they lost six players, but they're still pla...
IVAN RADENOVIC
Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in. GREG NORMAN I'm sure it means a lot to the public schools for us to be in the championship game. But that's not ...
REIDAR JENSEN As a singer, I have won the highest honours in China. Actually I am like the panda: we are both nati...
PENG LIYUAN How good is this defense? Man, we're champions. We said we couldn't say anything until we won a cham...
DEXTER JACKSON We're not satisfied and we won't be until the very end where we're hosting that national championshi...
DAVID LOWRY
I won the city scoring championship as a senior. BOB COUSY There's a great buzz here, but there's nothing like a football game day. I don't care if we win the ...
ANDY CULPEPPER We treated it like our championship game.
KIM INSALACO It means everything now. Our ultimate goal is to win a national championship. We took a big step mak...
ALISON BALES [Winning] the national championship is really one of our goals.
COLLIN WALLACE They needed to choose this championship or the national games.
LUO XUEJUAN Our ultimate goal is to get to the (national) championship.
KATIE SCHRADER
It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship. HALE IRWIN We won the conference championship, made it to the Upper State semifinals and won two playoff games ...
JOEL ALLEN
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma:... WINSTON CHURCHILL We have a new team and our ranking [is based off the] impression of the past and the championship th...
JANUSZ BEDNARSKI We were disappointed because it was definitely a winnable game. Nobody came out with the drive that ...
DEREK DENNIS We know we can compete for a Big East title and a national championship. We have confidence in each ...
LEVANCE FIELDS We had big hopes of winning the national championship, ... and those were basically shot. Our dreams...
DAVID MACKLIN I told the guys before the game that we had already won the district championship, but this is a dif...
DENNIS HOGUE Playing in the national championship game is priceless in many ways.
MARK FARLEY I'd give up having the most wins for that national championship.
DENNIS ROLAND
I'm proud of the fact that about 90 percent of the guys on this team have never won a championship a... CHRIS STEWART We won the county baseball championship four years in a row and were in the state playoffs each year...
PAT ADKISON They are trying to take something off our championship. But they are not going to be able to. We won...
ANTONIO LOPES The most unexpected moment about the visit was when we saw that Albert was wearing his championship ...
JACK HUCKEL We're not going to try to win the national championship in the first game. We really believe it's ab...
CASSANDRA YANCY The only thing that could be better is if it won a world championship for my team.
BONZI WELLS I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the...
KIRBY SMART Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do tha...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI We won a world championship with some high-maintenance ballplayers and he handled Barry Bonds (in Pi...
DAVE DOMBROWSKI I remember watching that national championship game (against Kansas) at my home. He was running the ...
DOMINIQUE KIRK I think the way we've structured it with the four games plus the national championship will be a pos...
TOM HANSEN We're on a page now where we want to be the top team in the nation. We want to win a national champi...
LANCE WATSON Final Four and National Championship T-shirts are already ordered. I'm crossing my fingers that we c...
LYNNE VAUGHAN Here's my feeling. If he wins the Heisman Trophy, that probably means we win the national championsh...
CHARLIE WEIS
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of r... WASHINGTON IRVING It was like a championship game, it was that kind of atmosphere today. Either team could've won. All...
GREG CHANDLER We'll see tomorrow whether or not we can contend for a national championship. We need to come out an...
TOM PETERSON The first two years were rough, and this year's better. But we still are working to win a national c...
BRADY QUINN The last couple of years was to put ourselves in a position to win a national championship. That was...
ROBBIE EARL We were 14 points away last year from being in the BCS national championship. We've got to somehow f...
CHRIS RUMPH The second half, we seemed like we picked up the pressure more and once we did, it seemed like it sl...
ED ANDES I feel like I worked real hard throughout my three years to get where I'm at now. It comes second to...
EDDIE MILLER This is huge. I feel like we haven't lost momentum after the national championship, we've gained it....
BEV KEARNEY He really wanted to win a national championship. He really did.
DOUG BIBBY It seemed like the clock was not moving. But, I had a feeling of pride for what the team had accompl...
BILL MANDIGO We knew we should have won the first game. You want to win the conference title, but the goal for bo...
LONNIE LUCAS
A mind that dwells in the past builds a prison it cannot escape. Control your mind, or it will contr... 
The war is always the same, only the names and places change. There are demons upon this earth. They... 
Life is a test we take every day. You must focus. You must be there for them when they need you. 