Top 381 Playoffs Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
That's what you need to win a Cup and go far in the playoffs, you need every guy to be accountable in all areas of the ice.
For every team in the playoffs, their defensive intensity, their defensive attention to detail just becomes greater.
You want to be ramping up toward the playoffs. You want to be peaking as you're heading in.
If you are not playing for the Stanley Cup at the end of the year, what's the point? If you don't win, you may as well not make the playoffs, because you are loser just like everyone else.
Winning the Rookie of the Year would be nice but making the playoffs would be even nicer for me.
I am poised and confident in what I do, so I think whether it's shot clock winding down in the playoffs or regular season game, I'm going to have the same mentality.
I don't pay attention to accolades or any of that stuff because I think it can serve as a distraction, so for me, I just focus on winning games, trying to make the playoffs.
The playoffs are a different animal, and any team can beat you on any day.
I don't want to limit to the playoffs, I want to win a championship.
You have to be able to win on the road if you want to win in the playoffs.
In the playoffs, it changes a little bit with defenses tightening up and every little thing is put under the microscope.
My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.
Life is like a game, Charlie Brown... Sometimes you win... Sometimes you lose." "I'll be happy if I just make the playoffs.
I know it’s been 15 years since the Bills made the playoffs. Well get ready, man, we’re going. We are going.
Tim Duncan's foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year's playoffs. That's not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.
The OHL compared to the NHL playoffs, I don't think they really compare. You can't really rely on that experience.
What I've talked about the entire series and throughout this playoffs is about intensity and effort, desire and will of our players.
This is why you play - to get an opportunity to play in the playoffs.
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.
I don't just want to play in the playoffs. I want to win the World Series.
Playing the whole season and going through the whole playoffs in 2011 was the hardest 10-month period.
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.
I feel like any team I'm on, I can help take that team to the playoffs.
I've always felt like I'm a winning player. Like I deserved it to be in the playoffs - to be battling.
When you're playing to get into the playoffs, your contract is the last thing on your mind.
Joe Montana had bad games in the playoffs against the Giants and Chicago Bears; that doesn't stop us from considering him as possibly the best.
Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure.
When you have a year of experience and also the experience of playing in the playoffs, it just makes a world of difference.
I think the playoffs heighten everything, you're fighting the same opponent over and over again.
One of the best things is to be able to go to the playoffs and win a championship. After you taste the first one, you want to go back every year.
It's fun running out onto the field. It's much more fun playing in the playoffs.
It's not easy to make the playoffs, and I think a lot of people overlook that. They think it's a piece of cake, but it's definitely not.
It doesn't matter if it's game one or game 82, playoffs or whatever. Sometimes the basketball gods don't play in your favor that night.
Obviously, if you go to the playoffs you have an opportunity to go to the Super Bowl.
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.
I'm dying to play in the playoffs. Dying to bring a little success back to Edmonton. I think the fans deserve it, the city deserves it.
I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.
Yeah, I think when you don't make it to the playoffs and you're watching those games, I think there's envy in every game you watch.
You have so much fun playing games. We all love basketball, so we never want the season to end, 'cause then it's five months of sitting around and watching the playoffs.
A good season for me is going to the playoffs and making a run for the Super Bowl and having a good record.
Playoffs are like another season to be completely honest. I don't know how to describe it, but it's kind of like a different wave of energy.
I think being able to make the playoffs alone is an outstanding accomplishment alone and something not a lot of people get to experience in their careers.
Playing eight years, never making the playoffs, you feel like you're running on a treadmill that's going nowhere. You're like, 'Is this it? Is this all football is?'
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.
I'm a big believer that if you can have success in the playoffs, when it means the most and when the game is at its highest pace, it always carries into the next year and it gives a player confidence.
It's been a long time since I've been in the playoffs. I want to get back there.
It's all about the playoffs for me. I don't care about the regular season.
When you don't make the playoffs, or you're not producing a product that you're proud of, then, yeah, it's tough on everybody... it's tough on the fans all the way down.
Going forward, what I can accomplish, I always have seen myself playing in the playoffs, playing deep, and winning. I want to be part of that and feel that.
I've been fortunate enough to do pretty well in playoffs. I feel pretty comfortable in them.
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.
If you just look at the numbers, you pretty much have to get 10 wins to get into the playoffs, sometimes more than that.
Having been in the league with five different franchises, I know what the meaning of Monday Night Football is. It's usually the best games and the greatest venue outside the playoffs.
You just want the highs to start once the playoffs start.
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.
The playoffs is ? I think I took it for granted a little bit. My first two years I kind of just thought that always happened, I guess.
I don't want to get dunked on too much, and I want to make it to the playoffs.
Experience I think is a big part of getting better and being a better team and going to the playoffs and toward the championship for sure.
I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.
As you get older - I'm not old, but 29 is relative in goalie years - you like to see your number of games taper down a little bit so you are fresher for playoffs.
