Let’s face it, first-time assistant coaches normally don’t walk into jobs with two perennial All-Stars on a team that just got bounced in the Western finals. Normally, they get a job in the middle of a year, playing for lottery balls.

When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.

[R]efusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character . . . makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended and can never be proper.

If you expect to see the final results of your work, you simply have not asked a big enough question.

If you play a final and win it, you get that feeling to win trophies, and you want to win more and more and more

With what I’ve already achieved in my career – winning trophies and playing in finals, important matches against Real Madrid and Barcelona, winning the Europa League and the Super Cup, and in the Champions League – sometimes you’ve earned the right to say something.

Roger is such a great player and I can’t say how excited I am to be playing the final against him. Hopefully, I’ll be able to maintain my focus and not get overawed by the occasion.

It was a great experience to play against him and I hope I will get another opportunity. I am not sure I played very well today as I had problems with my serve and missed a lot of shots when he was slicing to my backhand. But I played better than in the last two finals I lost. I enjoyed myself more.

I’m thrilled and excited to be in the final.

This is my fourth final and I just hope to enjoy myself and play my game. Previously I haven’t been able to do that in finals. It’s great to meet the No.1 player in the world, it will be a good experience for me.

The Brazilian press doesn’t allow us to forget the World Cup in 1950, when we lost the final in a full Maracana.

It’s the worst feeling in the world – losing, and losing in a final on the big stage is even worse.

Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way

The game is only over if you stop playing. There is always one more life. Even the most brutal death isn’t final.

When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I’d be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.

The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it’s the courage to continue that counts.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

I feel like I’ve left a few out there, but coming in with two birdies on the final two holes sort of eliminates some of that

Let it be understood that the University is a preparatory school: it is life that gives you the “finals”—not college.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

A cup final is all about seizing the moment. You cannot put right a mistake or a missed opportunity the following week.

Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.

Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.