Spoelstra Quotes

#1. I find that one must accept the people in such a way as they are.

Michelle Hunziker

#2. I support the rights of all people to practice their religious beliefs privately, but I oppose the idea of respecting religions. In truth, I have no respect for any religion. I believe religion is not compatible with human rights, women's rights, or freedom of expression.

Taslima Nasrin

#3. Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice.'

Penn Jillette

#4. I had to go through failures in order to learn how to do it.

Kyle Maynard

#5. My face is sour. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.

Augusto Pinochet

#6. During one of the 4th quarter huddles, LeBron said to him, 'It doesn't matter what happens to this point. No one is going to remember how many points you had or what type of game you had. Just help us make some plays to win this thing.' And he made some big plays.

Erik Spoelstra

#7. There's a built-in ending to everything in the world, right?

Jennifer Niven

#8. Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

Steven Biko

#9. Knowledge is borrowed; wisdom is unique.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Don't brush anything under the rug. Don't point fingers or do the blame game. A team is a family, and we're in this together.

Erik Spoelstra

#11. 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.

Erik Spoelstra

#12. Don't focus on the victory, focus on the task.

Erik Spoelstra

#13. I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.

Wilfrid Laurier

#14. He drifted about with his head full of myths, always at least half lost in some otherland of story. Demons and wingsmiths, seraphim and spirits, he love it all.

Laini Taylor

#15. 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.

Erik Spoelstra

#16. The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.

Claude Debussy

#17. The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.

Katherine Neville

#18. I don't give any book a big chance. If it isn't interesting from the get-go, I let go. Sure I paid for the book, but I don't have to pay more in my time to read a book that bores me. If I don't enjoy reading it, why read it? For my original investment in the book? That's silly.

Jon Spoelstra

#19. My doctors were of one mind: unless something was immediately done, I had maybe six months to live. A quintuple bypass was suggested. Quintuple! I was impressed, though somewhat disturbed because I was in the middle of work on a new book.

Studs Terkel

#20. They played exquisite basketball in this series and in particular these last three games. They are the better team. There is no other way to say it. They played great basketball, and we couldn't respond to it.

Erik Spoelstra

#21. I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn't read the book either.

Mickey Spillane

#22. What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

Monica Baldwin