Top 1200 Nba Finals Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I love basketball so much, I love playing it. I just never thought I could make it to college, make it to the NBA or stand up here today in front of you guys and be an NBA MVP. It’s just a surreal feeling, and I had so much help, so many people believe in me when I didn’t believe in myself.

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

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

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

Mark Jackson played 19, 20 years in the NBA. Shouldn't even have probably been in the league, and he's the third-ranked assist guy in the NBA. But you describe his game: Can he jump? No, not really. How's his outside shot? Eh, it's inconsistent. Can he defend? Nah, he can't stay in front of guys. And he played 19 years!

I always tried to be an all-around player. In college, I felt like I needed to add to my game to get to another level, to get to the NBA. The NBA has really turned to positionless basketball, so it was very important to me to have an all-around game so I could stand out in front of other guys.

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

I think greatness is always good for the NBA. Great players, great teams - it's always good for the NBA.

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

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

Yeah, I was ready for the NBA. Because I went through a lot of things back overseas. And you know, playing professionally from a young age and then playing against the older guys - guys over 30; older, talented guys - was really tough, but it also helped my game grow and just get me ready for the NBA.

I think that a lot of people are like, 'Oh, he only - he got hurt in the college season, where they only played 40 games. How is he gonna play 82 games in the NBA season?' They don't really look at the fact that in college, you practice way harder than in the NBA.

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

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

If the NBA is worried about the NBA, if the NCAA is worried about the NCAA, if each individual institution is just worried about themselves, and the last thing we think about is these kids, then we're going to make wrong decisions. There are a lot of players of different levels, of different abilities. Let's be fair with them.

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

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

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

Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of college, then they have a minor league system that they put the kids in. I'm sure that if the NBA followed the same thing, there would be a lot of kids in a minor league system that still were not good enough to play in the major NBA.

NBA is totally different in style. In NBA, we play much more aggressive, much harder. It's not time for thinking. In Europe, we play every week, one game. Here we play every second day so if you lose, you don't have time to think about losing. Just go forward.

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

I think it's always difficult to go against people with big match experience in finals.

The Finals are about a test of wills.

Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.

I have had penalties in finals so I have experience.

My good friend Yao Ming was the first big player in the NBA to come from China. He gave himself to the game and was successful. That inspired the NBA to invest more and do more for the game of basketball. We're building academies not just in China, but in India, Africa, Europe and South America as well.

I think it's hard to compare the NBA and the WNBA, but the thing about the NBA is they just have a ton of movement every year, but the WNBA doesn't. Free agency is not set up that way; the money is obviously not set up that way, so when one player moves, it could set the stage for, literally, like, six or seven years.

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

Getting to two finals is difficult in the same season.

Making it to the Finals was the hardest work. You have to go out and play the physical and mental game.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm not scared of the NBA. I'm not scared of the NBA officials.

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

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

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

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

If someone told me I could play two Asian Cup finals, I wouldn't have believed it.

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

Hey, the Clippers are a good NBA basketball school. Helps out all the young guys who come into the league. It's not a fast team, not like a real NBA team. All the players have to worry about is improving on their own. You are there for your first few years. They teach you a little bit about the game, and then they let you go.

I mean, I was always hoping to play in the NBA. Of course, when that thing happened, you're like, 'Finally, I did it, but the work starts now.' I didn't want to just be known as OK, I came to the NBA, and then in a few years, you're gone. First my goal was to be the best Slovenian player in the league. Of course, after that, your appetite goes up.

In the early '80s there was a big gap between the NBA and the international game and when we started making our careers here in the NBA, obviously, we became better players. When we used to play each other on the international level, that gap became smaller and smaller.

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

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

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

Basketball should be more popular. In my opinion, the NBA should rival the NFL. At the very least, no way should the NFL be five times more popular than the NBA.

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

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

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

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

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

I think it's the hardest part for about 80 percent of the guys in the NBA. That's just the way it is in the NBA, unless you're a mega superstar. You're just going to play wherever you go. You try to find the right fit and the right team with the right system and the right coach at the right time.

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

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

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

I wasn't sure how it would unfold once I got to the NBA, but I knew if I got to the NBA, I could then have the platform and have the resources and the connections and the people around me that had more connections and more resources to help me really impact a lot of people's lives.