Quotes by Erik Spoelstra

My wife has now made a point of, after losses, to bring our son into the bed when he wakes up in the morning. So when I'm waking up and I'm still obsessing over whatever happened the night before, I see this little guy right in front of me smiling and wanting to connect with me. It's totally changed how I compartmentalize.

The officials have a tough job to do. But that's what they're hired to do and that's what they spend all their time doing.

This is a beautiful game.

If you want to win in a tough place, you're going to have to make tough plays, you're going to have to get stops.

You have to be ready for anything in the playoffs.

Competition matters.

I just hate this term of 'essential' staff, and 'non-essential' staff.

If you're a competitor, this is what you want. You want all of the games to have meaning, context and to be the best competition.

In my mind, this is an 'and,' it's not 'either' 'or' or 'but.' Yeah, you can feel a certain way about honoring the flag and the country, and feel that there needs to be some significant changes in the system, regarding racial inequalities.

The unified message in this fight against systemic racism and racial inequality is something that our entire Association is united to fight against.