Playoff Quotes

#1. There were a lot of big games. But I think one of the biggest was one that will go down as one of the biggest upsets in playoff history. We were 15-point underdogs going into Miami and upset them. That was a big one.

Chuck Knox

#2. You've got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you're involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life.

Paul Allen

#3. Everything we talk about is about beating the Packers, the Bears and the Vikings. Obviously there are other teams in the league, but if you can dominate and be on top of your division you are always in the playoff hunt. It's time for us to win that thing.

Steve Mariucci

#4. You'll never have a 16-team playoff in college football. The most that could happen would be four teams in the next century. But after that, I'm dead, so who cares?

Beano Cook

#5. Any time you're playing a playoff-caliber team, it is always good to show well, because you don't know when you'll be seeing them again.

John Lackey

#6. Hed been to the playoffs before. I was asked last week what I thought this season has felt like for Coach Gibbs. I would think it must seem very familiar to a man with all those playoff wins. Hes a great coach who understands how to get his team to play.

Mark Brunell

#7. So you wake up this morning and find you're president of the United States. Pretty cool, no? Helicopters and a 747 at your disposal; courtside seats at any NBA playoff game of your choice; everyone stands up and the band plays when you come into the room.

Jeff Greenfield

#8. I'd rather have a 16, as in Stanley Cup playoff wins.

Lindy Ruff

#9. I care about this state ... and I feel a responsibility to get things done. If we stay healthy and play smart we can be a playoff team. I think we're on the right track.

Steve Mariucci

#10. At the same time, preparation is important to playoff success.

Barry Trotz

#11. In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.

Samantha Power

#12. I'm not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can't afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

LeBron James

#13. We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and those close races created a major surge in attendance in the last month of the season.

Lamar Hunt

#14. Playoff basketball ... you've got to treat every possession like it's your last.

Paul Pierce

#15. I don't remember those early playoff games. Keep it positive. I'm a different player. More focused. I know how important it is to score in the playoffs.

Pavel Datsyuk

#16. By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series.

Steve Rushin

#17. The more playoff games and Super Bowls and things of that nature that you're in obviously is going to build your portfolio and raise your visibility.

Larry Fitzgerald

#18. I think we have played like a playoff team for some time. We can still do better. The key thing right now is to look forward, not behind you.

Teemu Selanne

#19. We had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth and I think if that's not enough motivation I don't think you should be playing this game.

Tina Thompson

#20. When the day inevitably comes that a Pac-12 team beats out an SEC team for the last playoff spot, you can be sure of two things: 1) Callers to The Paul Finebaum Show the next day will utter things never before heard on radio and 2) the SEC will go to nine conference games, stat.

Stewart Mandel

#21. I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.

Jon Bon Jovi

#22. I played in Joe Louis in a playoff game. I played there when the roof caved in for half a season. The facility is great for basketball because it goes straight up, so you feel like the fans are on top of you.

Bill Laimbeer

#23. When it comes to playoff time, I pull the energy and the motivation.

Pau Gasol

#24. When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.

Roger Clemens

#25. Playoff hockey is the best way to market your team. It's the best way to grow your fan base and give hope to your players and for them to develop.

Steve Yzerman

#26. I'm in a win-win playoff. Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing.

Billy Graham

#27. It's not a playoff game, it's like the Super Bowl. ... This is going to be a blood bath out there. I know they're going to be ready to play. This is going to be a physical game. I'm sure that I'm going to be ready and I know my boys are going to be ready to back it up.

Jason Pierre-Paul

#28. When you inherit a franchise that won one playoff game in the last 10 years, you've inherited a troubled franchise.

Jeffrey Lurie

#29. The most important thing is playoff sex ... er ... um ... I mean success

Marc Crawford

#30. Vijay Singh won a playoff in 2004 at Whistling Straits after a final-round 76, which was the highest last round by the winner of any major since 1938, when Reg Whitcombe won the British Open with a 78 in a storm that blew down the exhibition tent at Sandwich.

Dan Jenkins

#31. Of all the people in the world who could've won the seat next to mine at that playoff game ... it was you, Gemma. You. The one person on the planet who might just understand me.

Julie Johnson

#32. That's what you work all season for, to get into the playoff games, and you don't want to blow it.

Ray Nitschke

#33. I had to do something special coming in. I didn't do it, so I had to do it in the playoff. Winning the Mercedes is awesome. Winning three times is a dream come true.

Stuart Appleby

#34. It's just like high school. If you're a freshman or a sophomore, it's hard to tell the seniors who've been through two, three, playoff games what to do.

Tony Romo

#35. As an organization, would we like to be in a better spot Everybody would like to know they're in the playoffs. But that's not a reality, year after year being in a playoff spot with 10, 12, 15 games left. We don't have that this year, so our playoffs have started.

John Tortorella

#36. I never paid, or intended to pay, $10,000, or any amount of money, to any player for knocking Kurt Warner, Brett Favre or any other player out of the 2009 Divisional playoff game, 2010 NFC Championship Game or any other game.

Jonathan Vilma

#37. This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how much we want it.

Peter Bondra