To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
Some other people are very lucky and always get in to the very best teams at the very best times and therefore go out and score lots of championship points and be in with a chance of the championship.
Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in.
I have never played a game for the national title. Our goals always have been to win the Big Ten title and the Rose Bowl. If we do that, then we consider it a successful season.
As we say from time to time, it's hard to win in the National Football League.
I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month. Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it's not to keep trying to be the best. That's not necessarily human nature.
That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
When I talk about a successful program, define that. It's not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
Every year you suit up, you play for a championship. Some years, some teams... it was very few times I think I played on that realistically had a chance.