Nba Championship Quotes

#1. 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.

Phil Jackson

#2. 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.

Bob Cousy

#3. Winning an NBA championship is the biggest thing that can happen professionally because it's the top. But representing your country-with more than 30 million people cheering for you and then seeing you up there on the podium-it's hard to find any more words to put on that.

Manu Ginobili

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

Oscar Robertson

#5. Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.

Will Smith

#6. When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I'm proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination.

Doug Collins

#7. I felt like we would have definitely won an NBA championship if everyone was healthy.

Kyrie Irving

#8. 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,

Ted Leonsis

#9. I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

LeBron James

#10. I got a goal, and it's a huge goal, and that's to bring an NBA championship here to Cleveland, and I won't stop until I get it.

LeBron James

#11. Football players are busy (with) study halls and tutoring. Well, anyway, at South Carolina they are. I don't know about all these other schools.

Steve Spurrier

#12. Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival.

Chris Murray

#13. When I leave the NBA, I don't want my legacy to be, 'He won a championship ring.' I want my legacy to say: 'He played for the people. He gave everybody in the world hope that they can be just like him.'

Gilbert Arenas

#14. Patriotic to the point of arrogance, quick to take offense at any seeming slight of his beloved country and government

Craig Pittman

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

Steve Kerr

#16. 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.

LeBron James

#17. I guess it's good in a sense that it stops any of it from happening, but now you're telling me if it's Game 7 of the NBA Finals and a guy has a chance to make a play he's going to be like, 'Well, do I want this $10,000 or do I want a championship?'

Blake Griffin

#18. I dream about winning a championship, where everybody is hooting and hollering for you. The whole world is drawn to the NBA Finals.

Ray Allen

#19. Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.

Hubie Brown

#20. 17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael Jordan running on fumes with 45 points.

Bob Costas

#21. I've won a championship on every level except the NBA. It's frustrating to have not gotten that in the first two years.

Steve Blake

#22. It just wasn't our time.

LeBron James

#23. We want to get another one.

Stephen Curry

#24. Painting the enemy as being as inhuman as possible is a great way to win a war.

Rae Carson

#25. This was an unbelievable experience.

Stephen Curry

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

LeBron James

#27. I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize.

LeBron James

#28. Look, I won in high school, I won a national championship in college, I want to win one in the NBA. But winning a gold medal, I don't think anything can top that.

Carmelo Anthony

#29. Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

Thomas Jefferson

#30. Gas is almost a give-away in the U.S. at the moment. They've gone for fracking in a big way. This is what makes me very cross with the greens for trying to knock it ... Let's be pragmatic and sensible and get Britain to switch everything to methane. We should be going mad on it.

James Lovelock