NBA Championship Quotes

I can't remember one bad time I had in Boston as far as where I got negative feedback from fans, no matter the first year we lost 18 straight or the following year we won a championship.

Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.

I grew up watching LeBron and asking him to follow me back on Twitter, going to his camps. So just to be able to compete against a player like him and be a few shots away from beating him and his team to go to a championship is something I will always remember.

I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I'm proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination.

KeyArena was rocking, loud. The Finals in '96, I thought that was loud.

I think that in Atlanta I was hoping that things would have worked out. Once I saw that things weren't going to work out, I saw what was going to be the best situation for me to try to win an NBA championship.

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.

When I think about my MVP season, I will also think about the loss to Golden State. But winning the award as Most Valuable Player of the NBA is just a huge honor. I didn't really realize how big it was until Mark Cuban had tears in his eyes at the award ceremony.

My favorite moment was in Game 6 when Bill Walton tapped a missed Sixers shot toward the backcourt and Johnny Davis ran it down as the clock expired. We were NBA champions!

The Warriors team with Baron Davis, Matt Barnes, Stephen Jackson - that was an incredible team.

Sacramento and the Kings organization were always in my thoughts and I often dreamed of having a role in helping our amazing fans realize the ultimate NBA prize.

The idea of playing the point and leading a team to the NBA championship is what drove me to get up every day and work on my game as a kid.

I have always wanted to be part of something special, and when I got to Boston.. actually, when I bought, begged and pleaded my way onto the Celtics.. it was already a championship team. I was just glad to be able to sit there and cheer and to be Larry Bird's valet, to be sure that his shoes were fine and his uniform was folded neatly.

I want to do the best I can in the NBA. After three or four years, I want people to know who Scottie Pippen is.

I've won a championship on every level except the NBA. It's frustrating to have not gotten that in the first two years.

Our goal is to be the best team in the NBA at the end of the year.

Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.

I don't want to be one of those guys who is just there. I want to be a guy that's on a team that makes it and be an All-Star and has a chance to always win an NBA championship.

There's no reason to play in the NBA if you don't believe you can win it all.

LeBron will not likely win six rings.

I'm well-versed on LeBron coming from Miami and his time there.

I think as long as you have Kobe Bryant on your team, anything can happen in the playoffs.

The Raptors have to aspire to be the Heat and the Lakers.

Ever since I was little, I wanted to win the NBA championship.