A Quote by Kirby Smart

I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor.

Kirby Smart

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Kirby Smart
American - Coach
Born: December 23, 1975

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

Our goal is to win the conference championship and go to the playoff and win the national championship and we recruit with that attitude.

Mack Brown

We get three of the Ball boys on the Lakers together, and we gonna go championship, championship, championship, championship, championship.

LaVar Ball

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

There's three banners I want to hang - ACC regular championship, ACC tournament championship, and, of course, the national championship.

Jahlil Okafor

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

Milestones you'd like to reach before retiring? Not really. Because when I began it was never to reach 100 games or reach 200 or to get high on the all-time list or whatever else. Those things are by-products. I want to win another championship, beginning with the conference championship. The thing that was disappointing to me last year was the fact that we did not win the conference championship. I felt like we just let that game (against Air Force in Las Vegas) get away from us.

LaVell Edwards

I think being a championship-contending team, you have to have a championship-level coach to take you over the top.

Jamal Crawford

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

Nick Saban

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

Greg Norman

I wanted to win an SEC championship and a national championship. Those are the main goals.

Chad Kelly

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

I've always won. I've won the state championship, national championship, all that stuff.

Jahlil Okafor

You're working a million hours and you're on the road recruiting and you're doing all these things, but at the end of the day, you're competing for a championship. You're competing for a Big Ten Championship, you're in the Rose Bowl, you're taking your family to the Cotton Bowl.

Ryan Day

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.