Top 301 Finals Quotes & Sayings

It's been well chronicled that I've had a lot of losses in finals.

You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win.

You lose in the Finals, they're all disappointing. Doesn't matter if I'm playing in Miami, Cleveland or on Mars. You lose the Finals, it's disappointing.

When you get into the Finals, I don't think anybody is completely healthy.

The Finals are about a test of wills.

I won three FA Cup finals, two League Cup finals, and played in one of United's two Champions League-winning finals. But I lost in a lot of finals, too: the FA Cup in 1995, 2005 and 2007, the League Cup in 2003, and the Champions League in 2009 and 2011.

To be able to win on a Game 7 in The Finals, was a huge experience for me.

Success breeds success and the more you are around a healthy and thriving athletics team, the more the people who only think they can make semi-finals will be inspired to want to aim for finals and go for medals.

When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.

Being down 3-1 [in the Finals] was the worst feeling I've ever experienced in my life.

They get to the quarter-finals, Bill, I'll show up with a dress on

It's a big game tomorrow, obviously, quarter finals. I think that whenever you play the Russians you always get up for it, and tomorrow is going to be even that much bigger, the quarter finals.

From quarantine to the bubble to the Finals, everything just happened fast.

If we go to the conference finals and people say we had a bad season, I'll take that.

I've scored five goals in the most important three finals, and we won all of them.

Our under-19s, under-20s, under-17s teams are all getting into Euro finals, World Cup finals, winning bronze medals. We're winning bronze medals; it's about that final step now. We've got to punish teams. In every game - youth games, senior games - just to push the game further.

When I was playing Jimmy White in those finals, I could tell when he was under pressure.

I didn't come back to Indiana just to compete. I want to win the finals.

Matches don't come any bigger than FA Cup quarter-finals

The Process is never going to end. It's an ongoing thing. I don't think it's ever going to stop. As I have explained before, it's a process for making it to the playoffs, it's another one to make the conference finals, another one to actually go to The Finals and win the championship.

To be in the Finals and the medical staff is telling me I can't play... it sucks.

You can't just fast-forward to Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals. You have to go out there and earn it.

Well, of course you question it, especially when you get to this point. I always look at it would I rather not make the playoffs or lose in The Finals? I don't know. I don't know. I've missed the playoffs twice. I lost in The Finals four times. I'm almost starting to be like I'd rather not even make the playoffs than to lose in The Finals. It would hurt a lot easier if I just didn't make the playoffs and I didn't have a shot at it.

When you are winning and go to finals, you want to win the finals.

Finishing second and getting in the Champions' League quarter-finals or semi-finals is fine, but at the end of the day you need to take some silverware.

It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or what's now called the ATP Finals, that things changed again. Suddenly I won seven tournaments in 1990 and became No. 1.

There is no tournament to win for mental health. There are no quarterfinals, or semifinals, or finals.

The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions League where I had the opportunity to have scored in both finals I have played in. Finals in the World Cup or Copa del Rey are the ones that have stayed with me for longer or that I remember more.

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.

It's disappointing to lose a game with the chance to go into the semi-finals of the Champions League.

In the finals, anything can happen.

We want to be in the Finals and hold that trophy up.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

The three European finals I won, I remember very well.

Unlike last year, we're not just happy to be here in the Finals

To be playing in FA Cup finals at Wembley is obviously a dream come true.

A club like Liverpool should always expect to be in finals.

It remains an ambiton of mine to get to a major finals with Scotland.

And the '99 finals at the French - if I had won that one easily, no one would have talked about it.

England is a team that is used to playing in World Cup finals.

I'm the only player in history to have played in three consecutive World Cup finals.

I lost a lot of finals, so it was difficult. It's sad, and that sadness stays with you, but I always enjoyed the game.

But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.

You want to be challenging for titles and in semi-finals and finals. Everyone is excited by that.

A lot of teams who go on to win trophies lose in quarter-finals or semi-finals first.

Everyone loves playing in semi-finals and finals.

It's huge just to get a game in the NBA Finals.

My record of 13 goals in the World Cup finals still stands.

When games get tight in the playoffs, especially in the Finals, there's no space. There's no clean looks.

I've been watching basketball for a long time, I'm a historian of the game. I don't know any other team that's gotten to the Finals without two All-Stars... I cannot remember thinking of it. I don't even know if it's ever happened, for a team to lose two All-Stars and still be able to make it to the Finals.

Quarter-finals is good at a Grand Slam, but I think we want to go farther.

Especially when it comes to the Finals and playoffs, your team needs you mentally and physically.

All that matters is that China wins the finals, and not which one will be playing.

Getting to two finals is difficult in the same season.

It's very strange, it's absolutely extraordinary to get to four finals and not win one of them.

Athletes like me, PT Usha, Anju Bobby Gerorge have reached finals in Olympics, and it's not easy to reach the finals. If Indians were genetically inferior then we wouldn't have reached even finals.

I get this call and they go, you know, 'Do you want to do the finals?' and I go, 'Yeah, I guess, I've never, never done the finals.' Especially for somebody who's done as many thousands of games as I have, it kind of takes you one step further.

At the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals: Win today and we walk together forever.

I have had penalties in finals so I have experience.

During finals week, I don't get a lot of sleep, and I tell myself, 'I can't do this anymore.'