Quotes from Erik Spoelstra

When you're usually competing and contending, you're not relying on younger players to produce for you.

I'm definitely not trying to go out of my way to create my own image or ensure my own imprint.

It's a treasure to be part of a Game 7 against a worthy opponent.

I hate this quality, but I can go to dark levels when we lose. It's not a panic attack, but there's anxiety. I'm inconsolable. I'm a train wreck. I'm being myself. Then I get this crazy, intense focus, where I get desperate not to be embarrassed again. That dark spot is what I tap into. Creativity comes from there.

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.

I think it's gonna take a sincere empathy and compassion for people of all races, to really reflect and process on the true history of the black community in this country. The history has been filled with incredible oppression and we really have to acknowledge that, to start to change the lens of how we see true equality.

I really find comfort in watching film and obtaining knowledge and I use statistics and computer generated stuff to help me get those stats. That was probably a result of my father's influence on me at a young age.

I've traveled enough around the world with the NBA to see how much it's grown, globally.

When my grandfather was a journalist for the Detroit Tigers, he dressed the part. I mention it always to our local media: sport coat, tie, very professional and a nice cap on his head. And they also developed very close friendships with the players and staff traveling.

I think we would all prefer to have a slightly shorter regular season with less back-to-back games. This would seem to help put out a better product, and it could also possibly help with injury prevention from over-use injuries.

A coach-player relationship in this league often will be confrontational at times. And other times, it's smooth sailing. But just the dynamic of the competitive nature of everybody, expectations, results - all these things combine, yeah, sometimes it will get testy. And that's good.

You're all over the place usually with young players. You're trying to manage their emotions and teach them NBA situations. It usually takes months, even years, to learn and recognize NBA situations and then to develop a level of competitiveness that's necessary at this level.

It's such a great lesson for young players in this league that winning is the most important thing, and that's what Dwyane embodies.

We don't teach player development in that way, to be able to try to trick the officials or make sounds or jerk your head back.

True success in the N.B.A., you must have consistency of culture.

I only knew that I didn't like the AAU culture. I knew that if I had a chance someday, that I would love to be able to, even if it was a small drop in a bucket, to be able to change the culture and be a part of a positive change.

Look, we're the Miami Heat, so we know how to work, we know how to grind.

Zones are easier just to throw out there and you don't have to really teach it.

When I see a league with a lot of change and turnover, yes, there's a lot of big narratives out there, but I see opportunity.

Everybody overestimates what you can do in a day and underestimates what you can do in months of work.

We've watched 'Beauty and the Beast' at least 30 to 35 times, 'Moana,' 'Despicable Me' - '1,' '2' and '3' - all of these multiple times.

Bam understands the concept of a team and bringing out more out of somebody else, and he finds enjoyment and pride out of making somebody else better.

Sometimes, you have a hunch and then you find numbers that substantiate that, it makes either the staff or the players say, 'OK, let's fix that.'

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