Udonis Haslem Quotes (22 Quotes)

Anytime you start out slow like that it's a concern. You don't want to have the reputation of being a slow-starting team because you're not always going to be able to come back. We've been fortunate we've come back and won, but it could easily have gone the other way.

It is a game I'll never forget as long as I play the game of basketball. Obviously it's always in the back of our mind, how close we were last year.

Since I've been here, they've made great decisions. And I'm sure they'll make the right decision here.

We're two different players and we can bring two different things to the table. If we put that together, we should have a pretty good tandem.

It's kind of like fool's gold. We're definitely making plays at the end of games to win, but at the same time we don't want to have to rely on that going into Detroit or with the playoffs coming up.

It's very important to execute down the stretch and get the stops, but by the same token, we want to put the games away a little earlier.

I'm happy we won. I felt really bad to sit in the locker room and not be out there to help my team. I want to apologize to them, the organization and the fans.

It is one of those situations where I have to step up and stick on the shooter and let the guard take his chances down there. I am thinking a step ahead. I am thinking if somebody rotates, then I have to rotate.

I'm usually taking my charges on somebody driving to the basket out of control and their momentum is coming toward me. Whereas the Big Guy is just taking one step back and guys are falling. He doesn't really even have enough momentum to charge those guys.

I think we understand what we're going up against when we go on the road. When we go on the road, it takes two times the concentration, two times more effort to win.

He's the most dominant player in the game. If you don't have him it definitely hurts you. At the same time, the other guys have the opportunity to step up.

I should have never thrown my jersey. I understand the 5,000 fine, and I'm not mad that NBA senior vice president of basketball operations Stu Jackson fined me.

I will never forget that Game 7 as long as I play the game of basketball.

I never heard the music he was playing in my life, and I've never seen the dances he was doing in my life. It was definitely nothing of this decade. It was definitely nothing that anybody of this era would know about.

They pretty much had us dead in the water.

I don't want to get over on anybody. If they pay me, I want to be worth it.

There's not a time we're in that building that we're not doing some type of conditioning. We never really have a day off.

I'm definitely not packing seven suits. We obviously have a job to do. There's not too many jobs where people can play and make the money we make. You just focus on getting your rest, bundle up for different climates, eat right and deal with all the different time zones and everything else.

I don't think it will take long. We understand what the game plan is every game going out. The transition more than anything will probably be defensively, because everybody played different defensive schemes, and our scheme is probably one of the toughest schemes in the NBA because we work a lot harder.

We didn't deserve to win that game. If we would have won that game, it would have defied the laws of basketball.

We came out and took care of business and that's the sign of a good team, coming out and making adjustments.

It's a tremendous loss. No matter how much time he gets or what the situation is, he's one of the guys you could count on every night to give us everything he has.