I just want to go deep in the playoffs and be put in that situation where I'm locked in and the game and the season is on the line.
When you start using terms like national championship and playoffs, that's very rare air.
I'm trying to go to the playoffs. That's my goal. Everything else is going to fall in place.
During the playoffs, some players have more second-guessing and outright doubt to deal with than others.
To see other teams in the playoffs and battling for the Cup, it's something that gives you a little inspiration.
One of the things that was really attractive to me about Fox is they have the NFL, and baseball playoffs.
It's a reality here. We're a team that at this time of the season, with teams trying to get to the playoffs, it's going to be difficult to win.
The playoffs, everybody gets a little frustrated. You lose, your season's over.
I feel like, by now, if you don't understand that the playoffs can be somewhat of a crapshoot sometimes, then you don't watch enough baseball.
The playoffs are like nothing else. The intensity is off the meat rack and I'm looking forward to going back.
I can say all of the goals I want individually, but if we make the playoffs those individual accolades will come.
I lost control of myself a couple times in the playoffs. I have to keep cooler in the future.
Am I crazy to spend [millions] in contracts when I have the chance to get three layers deep into the playoffs?
I think that's particularly important in the playoffs when you're facing good pitching. You've got to go up and just anyway you can try to be productive.
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.
Usually I'm nowhere near the playoffs. My last game of the year is usually at the end of the regular season in April.
I've played in every type of situation. But to not have one run in the playoffs where you just make one of those magical runs? That's what I want.
When you get into the playoffs, there become a lot of different storylines. But it's all about putting together a team that competes for a title.
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.
That's what the playoffs are about. our superstars are going to play well. It's what your others do.
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.
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.
I've been on teams that never made it to the playoffs. It wasn't fun playing meaningless football.
I think as long as you have Kobe Bryant on your team, anything can happen in the playoffs.
We don't just say this every spring training - 'Playoffs, World Series.' You've got to do it.
You have to pay attention to details to have success in the playoffs. You can't take anyone lightly.
I just want us to be playing our best basketball here when the playoffs start, and in the right mindset.
No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot.
Everyone starts the playoffs with the same record. It doesn't matter who won 70 games or whatever.
Every team starts out at the beginning of the year saying, 'We want to win a championship,' but you've got to have a goal of getting to the playoffs first.
In the regular season you always say, 'Take it one game at a time.' But the playoffs, they kind of make you do that.
I don't care much about my personal record. I just want to be able to pitch in the playoffs.
Making the playoffs is hard to come by, so if you can help contribute to your team's success it's always a successful time.
If there's a loose ball, dive on the floor. If you can take a charge, do that. The playoffs are all about scratching. Whatever it takes.
I get excited for the regular season also, but it's just added excitement when the playoffs start.
I just want to win as a team, take road games, play some of the top teams and beat them to make the playoffs.
During the regular season, you don't have the sort of time you do in the playoffs to prepare for people, so you've got to go to your strengths.
Obviously, there is a high standard here of getting into the playoffs and having a chance at the ultimate goal, and that is the Super Bowl.
In the playoffs, it's win or go home. You might not have a chance to look back at a game and say, 'Man, we didn't box out here.'
Every year you go in and you obviously want to win a World Series, at least make the playoffs.
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.
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.
I've been through losing so much in this league, so to finally get a taste of winning and what the playoffs are going to feel like, I'm excited.
When I was playing, there were only eight teams in each league, and you didn't have any playoffs.
To me, it's like we're already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can't relax at all.
In the playoffs, the best players are supposed to play better. I did. It made no difference.
The thing I've always liked about the playoffs is the finality of it and knowing there's so much importance on every play.
In Kansas City, most of the time, if we'd have made it to the playoffs, we would have been happy. But our team wasn't that good.
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.
I think it's fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically.
I think I can play in the big leagues 10 or 15 years. But more important to me is winning-win, make the playoffs.
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
Every time you don't make the playoffs, you have something inside that you want to prove again next year.
There is just something about the playoffs and the atmosphere, and feeling like it's you against the world, that gets you going.
If you're not a Grizz fan, you might not even know what we're up to until playoffs come around. We get forgotten and sometimes slighted.
The first game of the playoffs is the worst. After that, you kind of settle down.
Only one champion stands at the end of the year, so just making the playoffs isn't enough.
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.
You don't sell the team short and say, 'We're just trying to make the playoffs,' or anything like that.
When you make the playoffs, it's like you've done your job for the team. I've got that moment in my mind all the time, and I want to be there again.
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