Nba Finals Quotes

There's a reason why the Super Bowl is watched way more than the NBA Finals and World Series. ~ A.D. Aliwat

Obviously I'm not getting much sleep. You guys can see I'm not getting much sleep right now, but I'm OK with that. I'm OK with not sleeping to be able to prepare myself and mentally keep myself intact on what's the main objective for me right now. ~ LeBron James

I don't think we'll shoot 76 percent in a half ever again. That's crazy. ~ Gregg Popovich

They played exquisite basketball in this series and in particular these last three games. They are the better team. There is no other way to say it. They played great basketball, and we couldn't respond to it. ~ Erik Spoelstra

They jumped on us. They were the aggressor. They had us on our heels from the beginning. ~ LeBron James

I dream about winning a championship, where everybody is hooting and hollering for you. The whole world is drawn to the NBA Finals. ~ Ray Allen

My favorite Knicks moment was when we beat Indiana in Game 7 to reach the NBA Finals. We worked so hard as a team to reach that moment that it was very satisfying to beat Indiana and reach the Finals. ~ John Starks

The same way you slow me down. You can't. ~ LeBron James

We were in the NBA Finals. Two games away from winning it. I think we did pretty well. ~ David Blatt

I'm not skilled enough to explain properly how we feel. Not only me, but I'm sure Tony and Tim and Pop feel the same way. Last year was a tough one for all of us. We felt like we had the trophy, that we were touching it, and it slipped away. We all felt guilty. We got to this spot, and we didn't let it go. ~ Manu Ginobili

There are moments where we forgot what got us to where we are now ... We stopped moving the ball. We know how it works. We are playing a great team with great players, and we've got to be close to perfect to win. ~ Manu Ginobili

We lost one, we won two and we lost another one. We'll take 50 percent in four years in championships any day. Obviously, we want to win all of them, but that's just the nature of the game. Not proud of the way we played in this series. ~ LeBron James

The 76ers hold a special place in my heart and I am intrigued by the opportunity to return to Philadelphia, where I was part of a rebuilding program, joining the team the year after it went 9-73 and going to the NBA Finals just four years later. ~ Doug Collins

I'm pleased that they performed as well as they did while we've been in Miami and that's about as far as it goes. Now, we've got to go home and play as well or better. ~ Gregg Popovich

If you put everything together as far as my mind, my body, my game. If you put everything in one bottle, this is probably the best I've been. ~ LeBron James

When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley. ~ Gary Neville

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr

It is so hard to leave - until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. ~ John Green

I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay. I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn't the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, 'I'm different.' If I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand. ~ Jason Collins

17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael Jordan running on fumes with 45 points. ~ Bob Costas

In the final analysis, you always get paid for your results. ~ Brian Tracy

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

It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure the highest reason for whatever comes to pass. What is man that he should contend with God, or presume that his interests rather than God's glory should be made the final end? ~ Charles Hodge

I look forward to making Miami a media mecca. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit ... he has it all. ~ Bill Walton

I think he got an incidental elbow in the face, messed up his pretty red lips a little bit. But other than that he'll be fine. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items we'd need to carry in our backpacks for the final, treacherous ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, would take along aquarium filters, just in case. ~ Dave Barry

I think LeBron asked out of the game once or twice before that, so we knew he was getting tired but we were all getting tired out there ... I don't think I've played in anything like this since I left the islands. ~ Tim Duncan

If I could have gave more, I would have done it. I gave everything I had ~ LeBron James

I have a great record against anybody right now, so it doesn't really matter who I play in the final. I'll be in there as the big favorite. But I play my best in the finals, in the important matches. That's why I'm number one. There's no secret ... I'm not overconfident, but very confident. ~ Roger Federer

Lucifer comes to give to us the final gift of wholeness. If we accept it then he is free and we are free. This is the Luciferic initiation. It is one that many people now, and in the days ahead, will be facing, for it is an initiation in the New Age. ~ David Spangler

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee

I know what I would do if I were coach. I'd determine our strengths and weaknesses and utilize them. And it's pretty clear what our strength is. ~ Michael Jordan

The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth. ~ Clinton Rossiter

Goals determine what you are going to be ~ Julius Erving

The measuring and mixing always smoothed out her thinking processes - nothing was as calming as creaming butter - and when the kitchen was warm from the oven overheating and the smell of baking chocolate, she took final stock of where she'd been and where she was going. Everything was fine. ~ Jennifer Crusie

I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either. ~ Jeremy Lin

It certainly is a very difficult group,. We're still bleeding after the Champions League final and want our revenge. ~ Paolo Maldini

As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older. ~ Olivia Wilde

Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences. ~ Craig Venter

For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one stage, the final one, of a long journey. ~ Alix Kates Shulman

Everyone thought that the Spurs would run through us and everyone is talking about the Spurs vs. the Suns in the conference finals. This team has a lot of heart and a lot of pride. ~ Marcus Camby

In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chaucer had any idea why he did any of these things. That isn't the way people write.'
I believe this as strongly now as I did then. Most of what is best in writing isn't done deliberately. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure. ~ Albert Einstein

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end. ~ Jerry Seinfeld

There's something final about saying you were married once. It's like saying you were dead once. It shuts them up. ~ Margaret Atwood

I started Ballet at a very young age and I was captivated immediately. It became my voice, means to overcome those final barriers to expressing myself. Letting myself fly free. The more experience I have, the more I get to know myself. ~ Amanda McKerrow

Recently, I can't seem to take a straight photograph without thinking that what I am photographing won't be the final image - like the world in front of me is not good enough or something. ~ Idris Khan

To be sure, God shall call you, and us, only at the hour that God has chosen. Until that hour, which lies in God's hand alone, we shall be protected even in the greatest danger; and from our gratitude for such protection ever new readiness surely arises for the final call ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement ... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys ... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities. ~ Marianne Williamson

It is a matter of glimpsing that in God's new creation, of which Jesus's resurrection is the start, all that was good in the original creation is reaffirmed. All that has corrupted and defaced it
including many things which are woven so tightly in to the fabric of the world as we know it that we can't imagine being without them
will be done away. Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption. ~ N. T. Wright

Just concentrate on what you're supposed to do ~ Jeff Van Gundy

There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail ~ Michael Jordan

You must have respect, which is a part of love, for those under your supervision. Then they will do what you ask and more. ~ John Wooden

Mary adored Jesus as the Bridegroom of souls. Union is the final purpose of love. Jesus by the gift of His substance in the Eucharist unites Himself with our souls as with His dear spouses. As a Bridegroom, He gives them all His possessions, His name, His heart, His whole Self, but on the condition that the soul reciprocates. The soul, His spouse, shall live for Him only ~ Peter Julian Eymard