Michael Finley Quotes (22 Quotes)

The one thing that stood out to me was he Popovich said for once in your basketball career, be selfish,

Tony is a big part of our success so far this season. Tonight, everyone had to step up and do something that he would usually give us during the game as far as assists and points. Everyone did that tonight.

It's always good to go against your friends, especially when you come out victorious.

We have to take care of our own business. We can't worry about Dallas. We have to play hard and play consistent as we head towards the playoffs. If we do that we will be all right.

I've talked to some guys who've won championships, and the one thing coming into the next season is they seem to fall into a complacency. The additions of myself and Nickand we've never wonwe're going to keep on those guys. This team has never repeated, so they have that motivation. Hopefully it's all enough.

I am my biggest critic, so I was putting a lot of pressure on myself to make the perfect pass or hit all of my jumpers. I am just trying to make the game come to me right now.

A lot has changed in the last year, but the game of basketball has remained the same. I put myself in a position where I'm very happy, very comfortable. I'm just going out there and playing.

As a player and a man, I really respected him saying that. I took that to heart.

I'm not going to dye my hair and try to get extra attention. That's just not me.

Everybody has to step it up. You never know when your number is going to be called. We have to handle our business, everything else will handle itself.

He said we could pretty much get anything we wanted offensively on these guys. But, defensively, we needed to make a stand.

Well, it hurts from the standpoint to think the way everything came about. At the same time, I mean, I understand it's a business. I've been in this league for 10 years. I've seen the good, the bad and the ugly.

It was an unspoken motivation for us against them tonight. They beat us pretty well at their place, and we just wanted to establish ourselves early and often, and I think we did that.

It's my fault that we got to this point. I was guilty of being overly optimistic. I wanted to believe that the next deal was the one that was the difference maker. ... I was wrong. ... Waiving Mike gave us the opportunity to reclaim financial flexibility. It never should have gotten to this point. My mistake let it. Which makes it all the more painful. It's a business, but it really is personal.

As a reserve you have to get into that flow and try to find the flow of the game. You find yourself trying to make more of an immediate impact when you come off the bench. Where as a starter, the game just seems to come to you a lot easier.

When we had the team down big last night, it was a great opportunity to rest our starters and give the bench guys a lot more playing time. Instead, we made it a ball game.

It's something we don't bank on having to have in order to win games. We always think defense is the backbone of all our victories. But if we continue to shoot the ball like that, we'll be tough to beat.

To be a part of a championship team, I'm excited... This is the closest I've ever been to a championship. I'm looking forward to the challenge of helping this team repeat.

If you have it, great. I mean, you obviously want your fans there, but if you don't, you can't get caught up in that. If you're on the road, you've got to throw on your boots, lace them up and take care of business.

Only two guys didn't have a break and that was Tony and Tim. Everybody else relaxed and just got away from basketball a little bit and was fired up to come back here and compete and that's what we did.

In some circumstances the bison appear to just ignore the vehicle. In other circumstances though we have seen them disturbed and pushed off the road, wasting energy, energy that is so important and valuable for them in the winter,

They're coming in trying to establish themselves as a title contender.