Top 121 Duke Quotes

If the Republican party becomes the party of David Duke, Donald Trump, I’m out.
Ben Sasse
I went to Duke, which is… a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.
Ken Jeong
As a thrill in my career, the Olympics rank right up there with my two NCAA championships at Duke.
Christian Laettner
Really, I’ve been set up for a good position where Duke is setting me up for a lot of exposure, and it’s part of my responsibility to show up for them because the team that we have, I play a really vital role.
Jabari Parker
I’ve won league championships, and I helped pull off a massive NCAA tournament upset – our 15-versus-2 win over Duke in 2012.
C. J. McCollum
The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
William Cowper
For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted the photo image into a drawing. This drawing was laminated onto a surfboard and auctioned to a buyer.
John Van Hamersveld
I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the University of Notre Dame.
Stanley Hauerwas
I was the No. 1 player in high school. I was a lottery player at Duke. I was player of the year in the ACC as a freshman. People just forget about these things, like I don’t deserve to be in the league.
Austin Rivers
Indeed, the Duke of Edinburgh’s disdain for his eldest son was all the more shocking because he made little or no attempt to hide it.
Gyles Brandreth
My second choice would've been Carolina. And when I tol

My second choice would’ve been Carolina. And when I told my mother I was going to Duke and not Carolina, she just cried, and that made my decision process a little harder. But I still went with what felt right, and it ended up working out well for me.
Christian Laettner
I had the opportunity at Duke to start doing things in the community, and it’s something I continue to do even 20 years later.
Grant Hill
I respect everybody who goes to Kentucky. You know that once you sign with Kentucky, the same thing with Duke. You know each and every night it’s going to be a team’s Super Bowl. You’re going to get their best.
Devin Booker
Volatility is not something that is a great fit for Duke if you look at the level of dividend we pay.
Lynn Good
If you went and did a microscopic investigative report at Kentucky, Kansas, Duke, Carolina, Indiana – what are you talking about? You’re always going to have some stuff come out that will be looked upon as not being good.
Ben Howland
It’s great that mixed martial arts allows people to still be in touch with their animal side and duke it out in a cage, but I think it’s important: we’re still nurturing beings, and we should still have compassion for each other.
Rose Namajunas
Duke recruits the best basketball players. They don’t recruit dunkers or highlight makers. They recruit good basketball players.
Zion Williamson
I hated Duke, and I hated everything Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn’t recruit players like me.
Jalen Rose
There’s not a lot of pictorial evidence from the Highlands, because only the very wealthy had their portraits painted – but there is one well-known painting of the two sons of the Duke of Argyll, wearing tartan.
Diana Gabaldon
I went to Duke, and I stayed at Duke all four years because I wanted as many years under Coach K’s tutelage as I could get. I think every year you get with him, the more it’s going help you for basketball and life. So I wanted to play for him as long as I could.
Christian Laettner
I made three visits during my senior year of high school to Duke, UNC, and Virginia. If I hadn’t gone to Duke, I would have went to Carolina, just like a lot of Carolina players who, had they not gone there, would have went to Duke.
Christian Laettner
I don’t believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.
Joel McCrea
For me, I spent four years at Duke, and I was 22 my rookie year. For a lot of guys, I was old as a rookie, but nothing could prepare me for the NBA, both on the court and off the court.
J. J. Redick
My defense is a criticism, but we won a national championship at Duke, so it wasn’t that bad.
Jahlil Okafor
In a way, you might say that David Duke is the son of Willie Horton. Duke is more overt, of course, but he’s really just pushing the same buttons and sending the same coded messages that the Horton ads did so effectively for the Bush campaign last year.
Judd Rose
A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.
Frank Ocean
The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during basketball season. You constantly see the NBA.
Grant Hill
There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.
Boris Vian
Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take a loss for us to lose in a sense. But overall, when we win games here at Duke, and we don’t play well, we might as well have lost the game.
Jason Williams
In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!
Angie Dickinson
My freshman year, the hate was all directed toward Danny Ferry. And every year, there’s some new poor sucker at Duke who draws the ire of everybody.
Christian Laettner
I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it’s all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know.
Oscar Hijuelos
I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don’t.
Aaron Patzer
I think the Duke of Edinburgh would have been pleasantly surprised by the reaction to his death.
Gyles Brandreth
I became a better talker on the floor, being at Duke, being in leadership with Coach K, and I think I got better defensively as the season progressed.
Jahlil Okafor
It was Napoleon who said if you want to understand a man, look at the world as it was when he was 20. When the Queen and the Duke were in their early 20s, it’s around 1940. Their values are the values of Britain in 1940; all that is best of Britain in 1940 is exemplified by the Duke.
Gyles Brandreth
As we look ahead, we see increasing opportunities for Duke in natural gas – not just for producing electricity, but in providing gas for our customers. We have been investing in renewables as well throughout the U.S.
Lynn Good
Prince got some Marvin Gaye and Jimi Hendrix and Sly in him, also, even Little Richard. He’s a mixture of all those guys and Duke Ellington.
Miles Davis
The enormity of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s global influence is daunting, especially for Kate, whose look is admired, copied, and analysed everywhere.
Ingrid Seward
During the summer of 2000, in the run-up to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother’s 100th birthday, I asked the Duke of Edinburgh if he was hoping to reach 100. ‘Good God, no,’ he spluttered, ‘I can’t imagine anything worse. What a ghastly idea.’
Gyles Brandreth
I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people’s tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.
Mose Allison
When you imagine the Koch brothers, it's hard not to th

When you imagine the Koch brothers, it’s hard not to think of the 1983 film ‘Trading Places,’ which featured as its villains a pair of brothers, commodity brokers named Randolph and Mortimer Duke.
David Brock
My dad does tons of voiceovers; he was Duke in ‘G.I. Joe’ and ‘Transformers’ and Handy, Lazy, and Grouchy Smurf, so I grew up with the best bed time stories ever.
Ashley Bell
Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist’s eye.
Wynton Marsalis
I phoned the KKK Grand Wizard David Duke in Louisiana and asked why my membership was being delayed. He said my application was on his desk and promised to deal with it personally. It was the first of many conversations with David Duke. We talked about his family, the weather, and about his political ambitions.
Ron Stallworth
In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite.
Eric Liu
The home games, that’s really where you can see everything – every game is packed. No matter if it’s like a game we’re going to win by a lot or a close game – everybody’s here. The fans cheer the same way and it’s great. That’s really what I can say about Duke.
RJ Barrett
I run everywhere I go. You wake up, and you do it, and you make the time. I bring my son, Duke, with me on a lot of the runs. I have this great jogging stroller, and he loves it. It’s a great time for the two of us. We’ll crank out a run, and he has the time of his life.
Bill Rancic
At Duke, the coaches would cover up for you. But with the Wolves, something happen,s and it’s in the papers, and I’m blamed. Things are run differently here – the wrong way, if you ask me. One man wants to blame another.
Christian Laettner
I will work to ensure Duke Energy is positioned to continue its track record of outstanding customer service and operational and financial excellence.
Lynn Good
The atmosphere at Duke is just unbelievable. When people say that you can feel the vibrations in the gym it’s not a lie.
Zion Williamson
When it comes to his sons, it would be easy to think that the macho Duke of Edinburgh has most in common with Prince Andrew. After all, it was Andrew, his third-born son, who risked his life in the Falklands war as a Royal Navy helicopter pilot – just as Philip had risked his own as a naval officer during World War II.
Ingrid Seward