Dwyane Wade Time Quotations

I've struggled in my life. I've had hard times, but I kept pressing on.

I realize that you have to be careful sometimes what you wish for.

It was a tough loss, but at the same time we're professionals and we have to take care of business.

Every time we play them, it's a rough game.

Every time we got it close, they just seemed to make the play. That is what good teams are supposed to do at home.

Everybody knows Shaq and everybody knows that Shaq always says that when the playoffs come, he'll be there. So we weren't really worried. We knew after he missed 18 games that it was going to take him awhile to get back. But I think right now is the right time for this team, that around the break time, he has a chance to get back in shape and get his form back.

I don't know if it was a wakeup call. Anytime you lose a game, you always look and see what you did wrong. I think in the last couple of games we've been getting ourselves down. So we want to come out with more energy and be more efficient.

Last year we had a team that everybody had a role. If it wasn't me and Shaq scoring, everybody was spotting up, hitting the jumper. The main thing is it just takes time to learn each other, learn the system.

I tried to bounce back. Every time I have a bad game I just put the effort forward to make plays.

I can honestly say if I had gotten (the gold) the first time, it probably would have been a different scenario this time around.

That was the first time I've heard that, so it was good.

You try to bounce back and that's all I tried to do every time I had a bad game. I was just putting the effort forward for my teammates to make plays and make plays for myself. So I did a decent job of bouncing back.

Anytime a change is made in the middle of the season, you're going to be shocked, especially with Stan Van Gundy. I've got a tremendous amount of respect for him. To step down the way he did, what can you say about that? ... We were shocked, but at the same time, we've got a game today.

There is a side of me what wants to go, and there is a side of me that of course wants to win the gold. But there is a side of me that wants to make sure that things are different this time around.

He's a big guy and anytime he gets injured it's a lot of weight that goes down on it. We have enough firepower that when one guys goes down the other guys can step up.

I try to bounce back. That's all I try to do every time I have a bad game. I just put in the effort to try to make play for my teammates and make plays for myself. I did a decent job of bouncing back.

It takes time to get familiar with guys,

It's just about getting the ball around the area of the rim. Some guys hit some shots, we all do, that you just throw up and it goes in. But most of the time you're trying to get it around the area of the rim and give it a chance. You never know what can happen if you get it on the backboard.

This team came out and beat us. Every time we made a run, they came back and made a run. We lost this one. ... We know that we're a couple of shots and a couple of defensive plays away from being a great team.

Anytime you get a win you're happy with it and you try to learn from it.

Anytime you lose a game it's painful. But when you get blown out, when you get embarrassed, especially on (national) TV, it's terrible. You put a hat on and walk out of here because no one has a reason to walk out of here with their head up.

We don't want injuries, especially to our best player, ... We just hope he can come back real soon. He's a big guy and anytime he gets injured it's a lot of weight that goes down on his knee, ankle or whatever he hurt.

I kept trying to play and kept trying to play, and anytime I bent it, it just, I couldn't go no more. But I think I'll be all right.

It's just getting familiar with what we're trying to do. I'm sure you'll see better spacing each time in the pre-season.

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

I knew it wasn't my night. Coach told me a halftime to keep going. It was just getting into a rhythm.

We can't say, 'We're not playing the best teams in the league, so we can relax.' Not at all. It's the NBA, so we have to focus on getting better, so we can be as good as we're going to get by the time the playoffs come.

That's once in a lifetime right there. There are not many times when Shaq has been on the bench in the fourth quarter.

It has never been Shaq and Kobe. The only thing would happen is Kobe would come driving, Shaq would foul him, the only time they would cross paths. So, it's going to be a interesting.

We fought back and it seemed like every time we got it close they made a play.

We didn't come out in the fourth like our usual selves. Most of the time in the fourth, we'll make the right plays. We made some of the wrong plays in the fourth tonight.

It's a side of me that wants to make sure things are different this time around.