Top 100 Quotes About The Playoffs
#1. I want my team to be more detached from the wins and losses and be more focused on doing the little things well. When you focus on getting the win, it can suffocate you, especially during the playoffs when the pressure gets thick.
Sue Enquist
#2. There's nothing less than that. I don't care about just going to the playoffs; I've been to the playoffs before.
Allen Iverson
#3. In this millennium that we live in, the 'Hack-a-Shaq'has proven not to work. It might work a couple games every now and then, but when it comes to the playoffs or a championship series, it doesn't work - not at all.
Shaquille O'Neal
#4. Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election's the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn't feel important.
Hari Kondabolu
#5. My God ... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?
Wade Boggs
#6. Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure.
Pete Rose
#7. You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.
Brian Jordan
#8. The playoffs, everybody gets a little frustrated. You lose, your season's over.
Richard Sherman
#9. The goal every year is to win the Super Bowl, not just to get to the playoffs, not just to win a few games.
Calvin Johnson
#10. I dont believe it wins championships. (It) gets you to the playoffs.
Byron Scott
#11. I know it's been 15 years since the Bills made the playoffs. Well get ready, man, we're going. We are going.
Rex Ryan
#12. You've got to be in the moment, especially in the playoffs. If you're worried about the past, worried about what happened last game, that's a lost cause.
Drew Storen
#13. If I continue to just get to the playoffs every year, I guess you could say I arrived, but right now I'm just trying to find my way.
Kevin Durant
#14. But then I lock back in and I start thinking about how fun it is to compete during the playoffs and the first round, the second round, and Eastern Conference Finals. If I'm lucky enough to get here again, it will be fun to do it.
LeBron James
#15. It's funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they're always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl.
Al Michaels
#16. I lost control of myself a couple times in the playoffs. I have to keep cooler in the future.
Dirk Nowitzki
#17. What I've learned so far from researching is that to win the Stanley Cup, you have to make the playoffs.
Ted Leonsis
#18. As you've progress further in the Playoffs, the ice usually gets a little softer. It's tough to keep it that cold. We could make it hard, but it would be about 4 degrees in the building. I'm sure the fans wouldn't appreciate that very much, wearing parkas in June.
Chris Pronger
#19. It's not a question of if we make the playoffs; we will. And when we get there, I have no fear of anyone.
Kobe Bryant
#20. I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.
Chili Davis
#21. Toughest [lineup] I've faced. Hopefully, if it comes down to the playoffs, I can get my revenge.
Mark Buehrle
#22. War of attrition, war of wills. That's what the Stanley Cup playoffs are - more intense, more physical and more prolonged than the playoffs of any other sport.
George Vecsey
#23. I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
Eddie Cahill
#24. We're beating a lot of poor teams. So what? We won a lot of games last year, too. Will Horace and Bill still be playing at this level in the playoffs ... Can Pip keep it up?
Michael Jordan
#25. Am I crazy to spend [millions] in contracts when I have the chance to get three layers deep into the playoffs?
Mark Cuban
#26. A-Rod wants to be like Babe Ruth. And people don't realize this, he's a lot like Babe Ruth. Before the playoffs a couple of years ago, A-Rod went to the hospital and promised a dying kid he'd ground out to second for him.
Artie Lange
#27. At the end of the day, I've played six years, haven't made the playoffs yet, that burns me and hurts my heart, so I really want to be playing.
Kevin Love
#28. I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs.
Coby Bell
#29. This is why you play
to get an opportunity to play in the playoffs,
Derek Jeter
#30. The playoffs are the playoffs. You just play who is put in front of you.
Steve Nash
#31. I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.
Saku Koivu
#32. The deeper you get into the playoffs, obviously the better the opponent is. Which means they'll be better defensively, they'll rebound better, they don't turn the ball over.
Eric Snow
#33. The NHL is the best league in the world, but it's a grind. You sometimes forget, especially if you are losing, or missing the playoffs ... how fun this game can be.
Thomas Vanek
#34. To me, it's like we're already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can't relax at all.
Peter Bondra
#35. If you throw 200 innings or more, you have to be in shape. If you work on your diet and strength, it will help you be in perfect shape for the playoffs.
Carlos Zambrano
#36. In 1999, I got fired as coach of New England. In three years in New England, we actually did better than most people think. We were 27-21, won the AFC division title, went to the playoffs twice.
Pete Carroll
#37. Playing in the playoffs is the best basketball in the world, and if you can learn under that pressure, succeed under that pressure, it gives you more confidence the next year.
Tony Parker
#38. I'm not a guy that believes you've got to have a lot of experience to have success in the playoffs.
Phil Simms
#39. We are a terrible defensive team right now. We're not putting forth the maximum effort that we need to put forth, especially in our position. You'd think that we'd put forth that maximum effort to not only win the game, but to get a good rhythm to get into the playoffs.
Jermaine O'Neal
#40. I'm going to make the playoffs. You can believe that. To never play in the playoffs, that will not be my legacy.
LaDainian Tomlinson
#41. I know winning 20 is a special kind of thing, but I'd rather get into the playoffs, and be strong for the playoffs.
Tim Hudson
#42. It's the playoffs. You find a way to get through.
Steve Finley
#43. The QB is going to be judged, fair or unfair, on success in the playoffs. You remember QBs who have won 3 or 4 Super Bowls
Aaron Rodgers
#45. We've played with a lot of confidence and that's been the key so far. Hopefully, we can take more confidence into the playoffs.
Teemu Selanne
#46. I am right where I want to be-in the playoffs, and happy about it.
Bobby Abreu
#47. Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death ... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.
John Facenda
#48. It was an exciting time for me personally because the number of times I've been to the playoffs, that was the opportunity to obtain the first ring. That was special, that's for sure.
Roger Clemens
#49. I have people that I'm close to that give me things to read throughout the season, and in particular in the playoffs and the postseason.
Derek Fisher
#50. It would be easier if I didn't even make the playoffs, it would hurt less. But then I start thinking about how much fun it is.
LeBron James
#51. I played in the playoffs with teams that were known for flopping and you do not get respect.
Chris Webber
#52. I think I can play in the big leagues 10 or 15 years. But more important to me is winning-win, make the playoffs.
Carlos Beltran
#53. I don't think I was a year too late or a year too early in retiring. If the Seahawks had been in the playoffs a year later, I might have had some regrets.
Steve Largent
#55. [The Angels are] a team that gives you an opportunity always to be in the playoffs. This time, my first time with them, I was very close to getting to the World Series, so why not stay?
Bobby Abreu
#56. Obviously, not playing a game before playoffs is something that happened, but especially going into the playoffs, you try to feel yourself out, where you're at, and then get right into game tempo and jump right in and play where you were before the injury.
Patrick Kane
#57. 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
#58. Whatever happened in the regular season seems to not matter in the playoffs.
Carl Crawford
#59. Whether it's in the playoffs or not, you have to keep proving yourself.
Marc Bulger
#60. The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.
Saku Koivu
#61. Making the playoffs three consecutive seasons is a great accomplishment.
Pau Gasol
#62. Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times ... we all had to deal with the Raiders.
Joe Greene
#63. I want to help my team get to the playoffs, win, and run wild.
Adrian Peterson
#64. Every team in the NFL is hard, but when we play our own division it's a fight. Our goal is to make it to the playoffs and to do that we have to win games within the division. We match up well against this division, it's just a matter of getting on the field and doing what we know we can do.
Giovani Bernard
#65. In the playoffs, it is do or die. You win or you go home. As a competitor, you love it.
Ben Roethlisberger
#66. You want to be the guy who makes an impact in every game. In this sport it's all about results-winning games and making the playoffs.
Martin St. Louis
#67. My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn't really focused on being a star player on a team. I just wanted to make it to the NBA. I've been blessed for the opportunities to be in the Finals, been in the playoffs ever since I've been in the NBA.
James Harden
#68. Life is like a game, Charlie Brown ... Sometimes you win ... Sometimes you lose."
"I'll be happy if I just make the playoffs.
Charles M. Schulz
#69. I don't just want to play in the playoffs. I want to win the World Series.
Robinson Cano
#70. I'm a firm believer that the wild-card teams, because they're grinding it out until the final days, have a tremendous amount of excitement. That excitement carries over into the playoffs and really helps.
Tim Salmon
#71. No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be ... it's a crapshoot.
Orel Hershiser
#72. My favorite event each year is the Yankees-Red Sox series. Love seeing passions run hot among the fans, especially when both teams are in the running for the playoffs.
Elizabeth Banks
#73. It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.
Albert Pujols
#74. The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country ... You're forgotten by Thanksgiving.
Tim McCarver
#75. None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.
Pedro Martinez
#76. You could have a season where you hit .330 and did all these great things, but nothing ever materialized from it and you went home October One. Or you could hit .260 and have key hits and key plays on defense that help your team get to the playoffs and win the World Series.
Andre Ethier
#77. I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, but I'm not gonna anguish over it like I have in the past.
Mike Ditka
#78. I don't care much about my personal record. I just want to be able to pitch in the playoffs.
CC Sabathia
#79. This is a good group of young guys that's eager to play. When I was coming up with the (Minnesota) Twins, they called us a Triple-A team. But then we made the playoffs. That's the direction we're headed.
Corey Koskie
#80. 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
#81. I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.
Don Baylor
#82. Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
Patrick Ewing
#83. I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.
Dennis Rodman
#84. Good teams make the playoffs, hot teams win the playoffs.
Derek Jeter
#85. The fact that we're in the playoffs doesn't mean anything to us, to be honest with you. Hopefully, we can accomplish our goal of going into the playoffs on a winning note.
Michael Strahan
#86. I could play through anything. But just thinking about I have kids, longevity, I probably would have made more of a conscious effort not to hit the floor, but at the end of the day in the playoffs, you can't play that way. You just have to play and give it your all.
Rajon Rondo
#87. The game against the Vikings back in my second year stands out. It was kind of a turnaround for us. It allowed us to make a run at the playoffs for the first time in quite a while. The memories are so many it's hard to pin one down.
Drew Bledsoe
#88. You have to pay attention to details to have success in the playoffs. You can't take anyone lightly.
Nicklas Lidstrom
#89. You live to play in the playoffs. It's like your heart is ripped out.
Darcy Tucker
#90. When I go back to NFL functions today, I feel a bit on the outside looking in. I played 13 years in the NFL, and I loved it - made a Pro Bowl and went to the playoffs - but I always felt like I was having to knock the door down to get in.
Doug Flutie
#91. People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.
Jaromir Jagr
#92. We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them. They have to understand that it's totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts.
Jaromir Jagr
#93. The playoffs is all about showing heart and playing together.
Dirk Nowitzki
#94. Everybody wants to play in the playoffs. You don't know how good the good times were until you hit the bad times. But sometimes success is just around the corner.
Trevor Linden
#95. My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.
Sammy Sosa
#96. Getting to the playoffs is more important than winning an award.
Corey Perry
#97. I'm not trying to put any more pressure on me because it's the playoffs.
Monta Ellis
#98. 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
#99. I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston.
Dennis Eckersley
#100. Winning the Rookie of the Year would be nice but making the playoffs would be even nicer for me.
Andrew Bogut
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