It’s been well chronicled that I’ve had a lot of losses in finals.
I think that all the countries that qualify for a World Cup finals deserve respect and if they are there it is because they have won that right.
I have had penalties in finals so I have experience.
Athletes like me, PT Usha, Anju Bobby Gerorge have reached finals in Olympics, and it’s not easy to reach the finals. If Indians were genetically inferior then we wouldn’t have reached even finals.
The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.
When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it’s all on the pitch.
For me, it has an extra value to be able to beat the Williams sisters in the finals, because they are just so good. For me, it’s proof of being literally the best player in the tournament.
Leaf fans loyalty is unshakeable. The fans keep coming back and it hurts, I have been there. I have lost in game six to go to the finals with the Maple Leafs, against Carolina and what a great final that would have been.
I won three FA Cup finals, two League Cup finals, and played in one of United’s two Champions League-winning finals. But I lost in a lot of finals, too: the FA Cup in 1995, 2005 and 2007, the League Cup in 2003, and the Champions League in 2009 and 2011.
We used to rehearse in unused lecture halls at Imperial and recorded our first album, ‘Queen,’ in 1971 while I was studying for my biology finals – it is amazing I passed.
It’s huge just to get a game in the NBA Finals.
It should be the pinnacle of any players’ career to get to a World Cup Finals with their country.
When you are winning and go to finals, you want to win the finals.
The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants.
To win the Champions League for a second time or even to have been in three finals and won two of them is a bit special.
There’s been so many stories throughout the league where teams have started off poorly and ended up in the Finals. Or teams starting out great and not making the playoffs.
I just want to play well, be a good world champion and reach some TV major finals, pick up some trophies, but just be a good world champion and hopefully pick up some more majors.
When you look at older teams in the finals, Miami and San Antonio, they’re not really the most explosive or athletic team but they’re always in the right position defensively.
My dad used to play basketball, now he gets to see me in the NBA Finals.
I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don’t want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.
To be given a chance to be in the finals was a dream come true, and I will forever be thankful to the whole ‘American Idol’ crew.
You have to pick up things from the big teams, who are always in finals and winning big trophies.
After making the finals of ‘Celebrity MasterChef’ I know how tough cooking under pressure can be.
People used to say that I thought I was Gareth Bale, and that’s not the case at all. I’m nowhere near that level. The guy has won so much – Leagues, Champions Leagues, scoring worldies in finals.
The 76ers hold a special place in my heart and I am intrigued by the opportunity to return to Philadelphia, where I was part of a rebuilding program, joining the team the year after it went 9-73 and going to the NBA Finals just four years later.
The year after Russell retired, in the famous seventh game of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, Willis Reed, the New York Knicks center, limped onto the court against the Los Angeles Lakers, inspiring his team and freezing Chamberlain into a benign perplexity.
I started kinda late with wrestling in high school, and I wasn’t doing so well – I lost my first five matches in a row, and my little brother said ‘wear this chain for good luck… ‘ and told me it might intimidate some of my opponents. Sure enough, when I wore the chain I went all the way to the regional finals.
But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.
Real Madrid grow in finals. We have a mentality for this kind of match and at the end you see your friend giving everything and you have to give it too.
I used to really panic about finals. I didn’t understand the concept of how you could have one test that encompasses the entire semester.
In the 123rd minute of the semifinal game at the Olympics against Canada, I scored the game-winning goal that brought us to the finals. You can’t replicate those do-or-die moments in practice or a friendly game.
Chelsea know how to win cup finals.
I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in ’74.
I may not have played men’s football, but I’ve been at World Cups as a player. I know the emotions. I’ve been in quarter finals, a semi-final. I’d been substituted and sat on the bench watching us lose a penalty shoot-out. I know what happens, what you need when the pressure’s on.
I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get. As much as I was disappointed and frustrated at times, I’m not sure that I ever felt sorry for myself or begrudged anybody any of their success.
I’m really eager to play the BWF Destination Dubai World Superseries Finals, especially after my enjoyable visit to the city.
This is the Boston Celtics. This isn’t the Phoenix Suns. No disrespect to any other organization, but you don’t hang conference titles. Do we hang going to the conference finals?
I dreamt of playing in front of thousands of people as a kid, but I dreamt of playing in World Cup finals as well.
I think it’s always difficult to go against people with big match experience in finals.
From quarantine to the bubble to the Finals, everything just happened fast.
In the Finals, you want to set a statement like, ‘This is me. This is who I am.’ You know everyone’s watching.
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