Nba Championships Quotes - Page 3

We had a lot of luck this year and our guys took advantage. Wow. What a night.

I've always thought that pressure is trying to feed your family, trying to make a mortgage. We play a game...And this is an amazing game.

Everyone knows Jordan as a winner, and that's what I want to be known as at the end of my playing career. Someone who's won multiple NBA Championships and has made a difference in the NBA.

I didn't think we'd get to this point that we're at now, but I was ready to lead If we got to this point.

Everything is sore right now. Everything. I look like I'm doing okay but I can't wait to get home.

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

My family is happy. That makes my job a lot easier. For the fans, I try to put it all out there on the floor.

But then I lock back in and I start thinking about how fun it is to compete during the playoffs and the first round, the second round, and Eastern Conference Finals. If I'm lucky enough to get here again, it will be fun to do 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.

Just wanted to inspire my teammates. Obviously, I didn't do enough.

We lost one (Finals), 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).

Tonight we had our chances but we ran out of talent.

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

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

The best option for me to do was not to move. I tried, and any little nudge or step, it the cramping would get worse. It was the whole left leg ... nearly the whole left side. ... I drank a lot of fluids at halftime. I even changed my uniform.

A team like Golden State, when they get into a rhythm they make shots.

We defended. We made them keep tough shots, and we executed offensively.

We have to continue at a high level and make them take tough shots.

We did what we are supposed to. We protected home. We have to try to do it again Thursday night.

The group of guys I have... They are playing off straight motivation.

It's a lot of talent sitting in suits.

But put my body through a lot, you know, but it's the price for your body feeling this way for winning. Did I win? I didn't win a championship, but I've done a lot of good things in this first year back, and hopefully I can continue it.

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.

Just because we are back home, don't get comfortable. Have that same uptight feeling like it's just us against everyone.

I'm a guy who is just trying to be successful in whatever I do, and I give everything to my teammates, give everything to the coaching staff. When you fall short, it hurts and it eats at you, and it hurts me to know that I wish I could have done better and done more and just put a little bit more effort or whatever the case may be to help us get over the hump. But it just wasn't our time.