Top 1200 Nba Finals Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The play-offs are a great occasion to be involved in; the semi-finals were amazing. When you're in it it's special and you do enjoy it but if you are in it, you have to win it. It's a lot of pressure.

That team across the way, you tip your hat to them. They did a great job. It showed in these Finals.

Chelsea are up there with best teams in the world,and let's hope United can join us in quarter-finals.

To be given a chance to be in the finals was a dream come true, and I will forever be thankful to the whole 'American Idol' crew.

I was 21 when I made the the finals of Cincinnati and finished 20 in the world, and thought it was going to come pretty easy.

Tournament football is unlike anything else. The campaign can be great, but a finals is a different challenge.

I entered a beauty contest on the insistence of my friends, and even before I knew it, I was in the finals and chosen Gladrags Super Model.

The best thing that ever happened to me was losing last year in the Finals. I had to change.

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It is always nice to get to finals, but never nice to lose in them.

Living in the 'Bigg Boss' house is a roller-coaster ride. I didn't expect to reach the finals. But I was sure that I would be in the top five.

I think that all the countries that qualify for a World Cup finals deserve respect and if they are there it is because they have won that right.

We had some great years in Portland. We went to the finals twice. We won 63 games one year. You can't tell me those weren't championship teams.

There was a tremendous amount of disappointment in missing the World Cup finals in 1998, so they're getting excited about this one and I really think we could do well in the Far East.

You have to pick up things from the big teams, who are always in finals and winning big trophies.

Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.

The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.

This is what playing football is all about - trying to reach finals and trying to lift trophies.

We were thrilled to reach France in 1998 but our failure to make the finals in the U.S.A. in 1994 and South Korea and Japan in 2002 has left a bitter taste.

I think that France, Germany, Spain, Holland and England will join Brazil in the semi-finals.

I'm really eager to play the BWF Destination Dubai World Superseries Finals, especially after my enjoyable visit to the city.

This is a proud moment for our city. This is the first time we have won a Finals game in this city, and I'm happy to be part of the history.

You want to play in finals, and they don't come much bigger than the Champions League final.

My confidence is not in man, it's in God, and so I look forward to the semi-finals with that in mind, absent of fear.

My own personal opinion is putting three finals in one day isn't supporting the women's game.

After making the finals of 'Celebrity MasterChef' I know how tough cooking under pressure can be.

A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.

I played over 130 matches, including four finals, so there have been many great moments.

To be the first player in the world to take part in three successive World Cup finals is very important.

The Davis Cup should be home and away from the semi-finals as a minimum, I would say even the quarters.

The NBA is a culture shock for college kids, and even more so for kids from another country. The NBA is a unique environment, so there is going to be transition for any young kid, but I think coming from another country and culture is even harder. It does take a special toughness and confidence to deal with that, especially since a lot of times you don't play a lot as a young player.

When you look at older teams in the finals, Miami and San Antonio, they're not really the most explosive or athletic team but they're always in the right position defensively.

I used to really panic about finals. I didn't understand the concept of how you could have one test that encompasses the entire semester.

It's very difficult to reach World Cup and Champions League finals and I want to experience those things again.

Some of my worst moments in football have been losing semi-finals, the Barcelona game in 2009 probably more than most. But you have to take it and bounce back.

I started when I was 13 years old by entering 'Elle Girl''s search for the next supermodel in the U.K. I got to the finals and was signed by Storm.

I thought I would make it (to the NBA). I believed that I would make it. But I had a Plan B. I was going to get my Master's degree at Tulane University had it not worked out. I think the pressure of making it wasn't on me as great as some other players that had no other options. I was going to do something special in life and I wanted to play in the NBA. I had a backup plan but I went full speed ahead with my Plan A.

When you're in the semi-finals of the Champions League, you need to be really good and need a little bit of luck.

If I were involved with the NBA, I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid to bring into all the travel and all the problems that exist in the NBA. I would want a much more mature kid. I would want a kid that maybe I've been watching on another team, and now he's 21, 22 years old instead of 18 or 19, and I might trade for that kid.

A burning ambition of mine is to take Scotland to a major tournament. It should be the pinnacle of any players' career to get to a World Cup finals with their country.

The main thing is to be in the quarter-finals and it doesn't matter if you play beautiful football or if you're playing ugly football, you have to win.

I played in the Champions League constantly for 12 or 13 years in my career, and I reached only two finals. I know how difficult it is to get to that point.

In the Finals, you want to set a statement like, 'This is me. This is who I am.' You know everyone's watching.

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

It should be the pinnacle of any players' career to get to a World Cup Finals with their country.

To win the Champions League for a second time or even to have been in three finals and won two of them is a bit special.

I'd played a few games at the Under-17 World Cup finals, and that's when I agreed a deal with City. In all honesty, I didn't know that much about the club at the time.

I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May.

I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory.

KeyArena was rocking, loud. The Finals in '96, I thought that was loud.

Real Madrid grow in finals. We have a mentality for this kind of match and at the end you see your friend giving everything and you have to give it too.

This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.

The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment.

Today I am a hero because of the saves. But If I had failed in saving the goal-bound shots in the Asiad finals, I would have been called a traitor.

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.

Obviously he deserved that Finals MVP award. He is a great talent and he is a huge reason why we are celebrating.

England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played like s**t. Here's my book.'

Clearly finals are one-off games and they always depend on starting well in order to impose yourself on the game.

I don't know any other other team that got to the finals without two all stars.