Top 100 Quotes About Finals
#1. You have to have a good race plan. Our race plan this morning was to win the heat and get into the finals tonight. Tonight will be the big race.
Alyson Ackman
#2. And the '99 finals at the French - if I had won that one easily, no one would have talked about it.
Martina Hingis
#3. You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win.
Frank Lampard
#4. I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.
Oscar Pistorius
#5. I've never had a chance to go to the Finals, and I don't have a ring - and that would be the only thing that would get me to think about it.
Antonio Davis
#6. I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
Rachel Platten
#7. I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I've been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in the Finals. I'm tired of being second. I'm not going to settle for that. I'm done with it.
Kevin Durant
#8. I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get.
Andy Roddick
#9. I think that France, Germany, Spain, Holland and England will join Brazil in the semi-finals.
Pele
#10. 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.
LeBron James
#11. I'd rather be able to play great tennis at a slam than make eight finals of little tournaments and then lose first round of a slam. That doesn't sound too good.
Sloane Stephens
#12. 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.
Stephen Curry
#13. We're all hoping to drop at least a few seconds in the finals. There's a lot of girls that didn't even swim this morning that will be racing us tonight, so we are going to be in the mindset that we are still just as fresh.
Brittany MacLean
#14. Unlike last year, we're not just happy to be here in the Finals
Byron Scott
#15. Nothing is going to change. I'm going to wear my hair like this during beam and bar finals. You might as well stop talking about it.
Gabby Douglas
#16. I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.
Reba McEntire
#17. 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.
Michel Patini
#18. My record of 13 goals in the World Cup finals still stands.
Just Fontaine
#19. You always love playing in finals at any tournament. The grand slams and stuff like that are obviously the priorities but any titles go on your record.
Lleyton Hewitt
#20. Leaf fans loyalty is unshakeable. The fans keep coming back and it hurts, I have been there. I have lost in game six to go to the finals with the Maple Leafs, against Carolina and what a great final that would have been.
Curtis Joseph
#21. He reminded me of Gerald Roma from grade school, who used to burn ants with a magnifying glass. He was never quite right. It was weird that he spontaneously combusted during finals week our freshman year in college. Payback was a bitch.
Darynda Jones
#22. It is always nice to get to finals, but never nice to lose in them.
Alan Smith
#23. I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy.
Bryan Robson
#24. The pace of learning, application, and expectations of the real world of work - every week is finals week.
Charles Michael Austin
#25. At the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals: Win today and we walk together forever.
Fred Shero
#26. Probably. Definitely. I love to play finals. I love to play on the big stadiums. This is something really special. It doesn't feel like just a normal tournament for me - it's something more, more, more.
Petra Kvitova
#27. 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.
Andy Pick
#28. There's a reason why the Super Bowl is watched way more than the NBA Finals and World Series.
A.D. Aliwat
#29. I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.
Gene Simmons
#30. Had my dream again where I'm making love, and the Olympic judges are watching. I'd nailed the compulsories, so this is it, the finals. I got a 9.8 from the Canadians, a perfect 10 from the Americans, and my mother, disguised as an East German judge, gave me a 5.6. Must have been the dismount.
Harry Burns
#31. We've made three World T20 finals and won one - that's not by power-hitting. We've beaten the power-hitting sides quite easily and convincingly in all of those tournaments.
Kumar Sangakkara
#32. I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.
Ivan Lendl
#33. If we go to the conference finals and people say we had a bad season, I'll take that.
Tony Parker
#34. The great thing about working with NPR - and, really, there's like a million of 'em - is all the cool stuff I get to do for the public. Meet the president. Hang out at the National Finals Rodeo in Vegas. Drink a $10,000 martini.
John Ridley
#35. Matches don't come any bigger than FA Cup quarter-finals
Neil Warnock
#36. My first season at Liverpool had good moments but also bad ones. We played three tournaments and we played two finals, and that was good.
Luis Suarez
#37. I have lost three semi-finals at Newlands. I was hoping that last year would be a lucky number three. It was close, but we could not make it.
Schalk Burger
#38. When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it's all on the pitch.
Michel Patini
#39. It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship.
Glenn Hoddle
#40. I don't know any other other team that got to the finals without two all stars.
LeBron James
#41. It turns out that you can blow life off for as long as you want, but you still have to take the finals.
Tim Kreider
#42. The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment.
Helen Wills Moody
#43. It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or what's now called the ATP Finals, that things changed again. Suddenly I won seven tournaments in 1990 and became No. 1.
Stefan Edberg
#44. My saddest decision in football was leaving Paul Gascoigne out of the 1998 World Cup finals. But he wasn't fit enough and once that decision is made, as a manager and a group of players, you forget about who isn't there and focus on the job.
Glenn Hoddle
#45. I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to print out an article I've written, or missing out on the N.B.A. Finals. But at some point, I decided that, for me at least, happiness arose out of all I didn't want or need, not all I did.
Pico Iyer
#46. This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.
John Helm
#47. Phil took us to the finals three out of the five years and you want to fire him and want to bring in Mike Krzyzewski? Come on, man. That's like being married to J-Lo, then dropping J-Lo for a girl that's 5-10, 480 (pounds).
Shaquille O'Neal
#48. I have a great record against anybody right now, so it doesn't really matter who I play in the final. I'll be in there as the big favorite. But I play my best in the finals, in the important matches. That's why I'm number one. There's no secret ... I'm not overconfident, but very confident.
Roger Federer
#49. Tough Olympic news for the Romneys. Ann Romney's horse Rafalka did not advance to the Olympic finals. Apparently it was beat by a smooth-talking socialist horse from Kenya.
Conan O'Brien
#50. That team across the way, you tip your hat to them. They did a great job. It showed in these Finals.
LeBron James
#51. It was not until the end of my freshman year in high school that I thought I could really have a future in track and field. I definitely did not think I could make it to the Olympics back then, though; I was just focused on making it to the state finals!
Allyson Felix
#52. My favorite Knicks moment was when we beat Indiana in Game 7 to reach the NBA Finals. We worked so hard as a team to reach that moment that it was very satisfying to beat Indiana and reach the Finals.
John Starks
#53. Like I've said many times before, I'm always more likely to remember goals for their importance rather than if they're beautiful or not. Goals scored in finals, for example.
Lionel Messi
#54. Chelsea are up there with best teams in the world,and let's hope United can join us in quarter-finals.
Jose Mourinho
#55. When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.
Gary Neville
#56. We have a huge game coming up in semi-finals. Just studying Finland or the Americans, whoever we're playing. Just moving forward, working hard in practice and making sure we stay sharp.
Gillian Apps
#58. 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
#59. My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn't really focused on being a star player on a team. I just wanted to make it to the NBA. I've been blessed for the opportunities to be in the Finals, been in the playoffs ever since I've been in the NBA.
James Harden
#60. Obviously he deserved that Finals MVP award. He is a great talent and he is a huge reason why we are celebrating.
Stephen Curry
#61. Eric Boocock had been England's No.1 for a spell in the late 60s and early 70s. He reached three world finals and in 1974 put the town on the map by winning the British Championship in front of a 10,000 crowd and ITV's World of Sport cameras. Everybody
Tony McDonald
#62. I know he's going to be fired up. He's going to try to get some revenge for the NCAA finals. He's probably been looking forward to this match since last March.
Joe Dubuque
#63. 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
#64. I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory.
Martina Hingis
#65. There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.
Mark Messier
#66. It's unbelievable, it never gets too old. The biggest goal in my career is winning Grand Slams. I don't have a great record in finals, but I'm getting closer to .500, which is nice.
Daniel Nestor
#67. It's a big game tomorrow, obviously, quarter finals. I think that whenever you play the Russians you always get up for it, and tomorrow is going to be even that much bigger, the quarter finals.
Michael Richards
#68. I am very blessed to be able to play tennis, the sport that I love and very grateful for the opportunities to play in the finals of big events, when the season starts you are on the roll constantly and obliged to be committed to daily routines on and off the court.
Roger Federer
#69. We were in the NBA Finals. Two games away from winning it. I think we did pretty well.
David Blatt
#70. Neil didn't care how many hearts they broke that night. They'd beaten USC. When the Trojans lost to the Ravens next week they'd be eliminated from championships. The Foxes were going to finals, and that was the only thing that mattered. -
Nora Sakavic
#71. Everyone thought that the Spurs would run through us and everyone is talking about the Spurs vs. the Suns in the conference finals. This team has a lot of heart and a lot of pride.
Marcus Camby
#72. 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.
Tyra Banks
#73. 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.
LeBron James
#74. It would have served me right if I'd had a cerebral aneurysm on the spot. Instead, I forgot all about my foot
until we shoved the flat onto the stage. I think we broke my ankle. This is bullshit. I have finals to worry about.
Steve Kluger
#75. When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.
Tracy Austin
#77. In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals all rolled into one. This race attracts a very special breed.
Hunter S. Thompson
#78. This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That's what it's all about and that's why for me the FA Cup and the Carling Cup are the best cups in the world. That's the beauty of the cup.
Ian Rush
#79. I went through very emotional things this year, like being in the French Open finals already feeling like you got it and kind of losing it.
Martina Hingis
#80. Each weekend I play at least one and maybe two sets of tennis a day. My doubles team was in the finals recently at my tennis club in Palm Beach and lost a tiebreaker after a three-hour match. I must confess, by the end of the three hours, I was relieved it was over.
Wilbur Ross
#81. 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.
Robbie Keane
#82. Consequently, I won just about everything I set out to win, everything bar the World Cup, of course. But even now, I don't regret that, because I was part of a team which twice reached the semi-finals.
Michel Patini
#83. They get to the quarter-finals, Bill, I'll show up with a dress on
Eamon Dunphy
#84. Experience is the best teacher. I've been through a lot - going to the Olympics, going to the Finals, having a lot of good games and having a lot of bad games. It's a rollercoaster ride and I'm just happy I'm a part of it. If it was easy, then everybody could do it.
Kevin Durant
#85. After finals and winter break ... after I'm back to full strength, we'll go get Preston. Whether Mom and Abby and Joe and Townsend like it or not, we'll go get him. And then ... ' I trailed off. 'And then we'll finish this. Next semester, this thing ends.
Ally Carter
#86. You're willing to miss the finals ... for me?"
"I attacked a van for you."
"But that didn't interfere with your schedule.
Shelly Laurenston
#87. I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.
Jennifer Capriati
#88. But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.
Usain Bolt
#89. In that match for Holland I asked for a big responsibility, I got it and I dealt with it. I played well, I scored goals and the team qualified for the Euro 2004 finals. It was a big night and an important moment for Holland.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#90. I just wanted to set a good example. I wanted to do things that I hadn't done before. My whole thing was to just try to be professional. I think when you work hard, good things happen, so obviously, because we're going to the Finals.
Allen Iverson
#91. The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants.
Helen Wills Moody
#92. We knew we just had to win the heat to get in a good spot for the finals. We didn't want to push too hard for this morning to make sure we're not tired tonight. We want to be fresh for tonight because we know the other teams will be fresh.
Samantha Cheverton
#93. The 76ers hold a special place in my heart and I am intrigued by the opportunity to return to Philadelphia, where I was part of a rebuilding program, joining the team the year after it went 9-73 and going to the NBA Finals just four years later.
Doug Collins
#94. I'm shocked every time that I've reached so many finals or won against so many players or whatever record it is. It strikes me and makes me obviously very happy and very proud that I've been able to do it for so many years at the highest of levels.
Roger Federer
#95. 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.'
Joey Barton
#96. My son was born during my last semester in college. His due date was Thanksgiving, but he didn't show up until finals week. I brought my books to the hospital and didn't think anything of it. That is what a father is supposed to do.
LZ Granderson
#97. 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.
LeBron James
#98. They (Bayern Munich) lost in the semi-finals of the Champions League to Real Madrid last year, and the year before that were beaten in the final by Manchester United, so their European pedigree is second to none.
Simon Brotherton
#99. Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.
Virginia Woolf
#100. The ultimate fact of the universe is love; and its sway is all-comprehensive, and absolutely certain of final victory.
Frank C. Lockwood
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