Erik Spoelstra Quotes

When you're in the semi-finals of the Champions League, you need to be really good and need a little bit of luck.

Great execution. That's what you have to do when you're playing great teams.

I hope we can build our offense and go out there and win games.

Any time you get to compete for the championship in a professional spot, it's just a magic thing.

Unfortunately, in our business, it's all about the tournament when you're a good team.

You don't want to end up with a huge tally of runs after eight games but with your team out of contention.

I wanted to see if I could win a championship in San Antonio.

I've always said that to win the Champions League, you need to reach a certain stage in good form and with good fitness levels.

To win competitions you need a bit of luck and some talent. I think we have some talent on our bus.

People realize that when you win, you obviously have some good players on your team.

I want my team to be the best. I want my team to be the most attractive to play in the league.

We want to be better players than we do a pest, but you have to find something to do coming into the League.

When you're in youth development, you have to develop players - win or come in second. But the job where I am and the reality of our industry is to win to be successful, and that is what I have to do. I have to be successful, and I want to be successful, so we'll do everything we can do to win.

You can't get in the top four if you can't beat the clubs who are in the top four.

If you want to win, you have to beat the big teams in Europe, and Juventus are awesome.

When we go out and play the teams that we need to beat that aren't near our level, then we've got to go out there and blow them out.

I hope to have my players in good physical condition, all players, and then to face all competitions.

If you commit to the defensive end of the floor, you're going to have a chance to win every night. And if you're a great defensive team, you're going to go to the playoffs.

In Minnesota, we were caught between rebuilding or trying to continue to build around Kevin Garnett. I got caught right in the middle of that. KG was at an age where he was a good player, but he couldn't carry a team anymore. I think my inexperience as far as being a head coach hurt me there.

You want our team to have the best chance to win.

We need to remember that simply being Inter is not enough to win football matches.

You go into training camp and you fight for jobs and often times things work themselves out. Like players just take the job, they play so well, they win it, and makes it easier on the coach to decide who is the guy that gets those minutes.

Nobody wants to play for a team that's not competitive.

If we want to be a top team, we can't get to 3-0 and suddenly decide not to play without the ball. We have to play with intelligence right through the game.

You always want all good players at your team.