Nba Championships Quotes

I once heard that Paul Seymour said as much as winning an NBA Championship, he'd like to see the Celtics lose a game after Auerbach brought out the cigar so he could go up to Arnold and stuff the cigar in his face.

They played great and I can honestly say I don't think any of us were expecting this type of performance. They were great. You have to give them credit for that.

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.

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

Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.

Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.

When you look at the last 20 years in the NBA, there have been seven teams that have won the NBA championship. Six of those seven teams drafted the number one or number two pick; their foundational people.

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

We aren't comfortable. We are not satisfied. We have to stay even-keeled.

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.

I can speak volumes about the guy sitting next to me. You look at his stat line tonight, he had a lot of foul trouble and didn't really get going, but when he was in there, he was defending. He was playing physical, and he was doing everything he could to help us win.

It's different as a coach because you feel responsible for a lot of people. Even though you don't take a shot, you don't get a rebound, you feel like you just want people to succeed and you want to help them any way you can.

The last couple years they've been good, but it's just a great group of guys, and they were willing to take the vision that we gave them in the beginning of the season, and we started off really well, which I think helped. But as I mentioned, Andre's sacrifice, David Lee's sacrifice, their willingness to accept roles and keep pushing really was the key to the whole thing.

Our team, because of our depth and our talent, we were able to do that, and it turned into a special season as a result.

Yeah, I know there's been all this talk this year especially about the 3-point shot and can you win shooting it. There's a lot of different styles that can work. You have to base it on your own personnel.

As loud as fans were , they need to go home now and start soaking up a lot of tea, drinking a lot of tea for the next 36 hours, whatever the case may be, 'cause they need to be just as loud Thursday night.

These fans here are unbelievable. They showed up and showed out tonight. We needed every little bit of it.

Guarding LeBron James has to be the hardest job in basketball.

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.

It was our third game in five days. It seemed to have an impact on us.

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.

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.

I want to say congratulations to Cleveland and Coach Blatt. LeBron is an incredible player.

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

'Stay with it' was our coach's motto. That's what we did. This is unreal!

All 14 guys on the team have sacrificed something to get to this point.

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

I enjoy the competition and whatever it takes throughout the competition, I will do it.

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.

It takes a number of critical factors to win an NBA championship, including the right mix of talent, creativity, intelligence, toughness, and of course, luck. But if a team doesn’t have the most essential ingredient - love - none of those other factors matter.

Every decision he made, I think everybody bought into it. Whether you understood it or not, you bought into it. Because he's a champion. He's won five of these or something like that, so you've got to trust a guy that's been here before and his view for our team.

All that's missing for Utah is a blindfold and a cigarette.

Not even thinking about anything. My mind is a blank. We just want to enjoy the moment.

I'm just thrilled for so many people. Our players, mostly, but the people in our organization - Rick Welts, Joe Lacob and Peter Guber and the whole group. It's just a phenomenal group of people. I think as a coach you just appreciate kind of the big picture a little bit more.

It just feels good to say we're the best team in the world, with the best player in the world.

It was an honor to coach him. He should be proud of what he did this year.

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.

Steph is scary. I've never seen anyone who can shoot the ball off the dribble like him. He got it going in 4th. Every game is different.

I want to go get a stop on defense so James can do it again. It was a big spurt for him. That made then get out of their game plan and play him closer. But when he does that, we want to make sure we capitalize and get timely stops. And that's what got us right back in the game.

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

It was an unusual environment. We're used to having the jotter arena at this time of year. It's unfortunate that it was that way, but both teams had to deal with it.

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.

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

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

We didn't do much different against LeBron. We were just more active and more competitive.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

The Academy Awards for people in Hollywood is like the Super Bowl, the presidential inauguration and winning the NBA championship rolled up into one.