Top 47 Postseason Quotes & Sayings

I know the feeling of being in the postseason and losing. It's not fun.

I'd like to get back and win the World Series and have that be the last image in my mind for the postseason.

Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.

We're not even thinking about (the postseason) right now. We've been in a slump, so we're taking things day by day. We aren't looking to the future because we haven't addressed the present.

My first postseason home run was a walk-off in the Division Series. That was just a special moment in my career.

I've actually enjoyed pitching on the road in the postseason. You go out there, and you're getting booed, and it's fun to try to silence the crowd.

The postseason is more important than stats even though I do want them.

I think it's very, very tough to compare postseason and in-season, just for the simple fact that there's the heightened levels of energy on both sides of the ball.

Base runners in postseason games are kind of tough to deal with at times.

To be able to pitch in the postseason is great, and to be able to go out there and throw the ball well and help your team win is a great feeling.

Everybody's going to be clamoring, that's the way you should work your bullpens from now on, but you have to have the appropriate people to do that, and of course during the season it would be much more difficult as opposed to the microcosm of the postseason.

In 1955-56, Saint Joseph's won the first Big Five championship, compiled a 23-6 overall record, and entered its first postseason competition ever - the National Invitation Tournament - finishing third. That season's success seemed to vault St. Joe's into the national collegiate basketball scene, and it has been there since.

Every time I've played in the postseason, it's another huge accomplishment that I want to take full advantage of and go out there and play my best for the team.

The regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame

It's why we play the game... postseason.

In the postseason, as many ways as you can get on base as possible is big.

In a way, if we want to make the postseason, we feel like we have to win out. We have got some good games coming up, but we are going to have to buckle down and get the job done somehow.

Each game in the postseason has its own identity.

In the postseason, every possession counts, so it's the little things.

The chance to go to the postseason, it's hard to pass up.

Baseball's postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks.

Tell you the truth, the night before, I don't sleep. It's exciting to be in postseason, you fight one-hitter 62 games, you make it.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

I was in the postseason twice and I'm thankful for that

There are a lot of good teams that don't make the postseason.

The regular season is awesome. It's fun. But postseason, that intensity and adrenaline you get from it is a lot.

I'm consistently making adjustments. You're going to have to do that in the postseason, too.

I'm happy for my kids getting postseason opportunities, for both of them playing in the Super Bowl back to back. I never would have envisioned anything like that.

We were able to change the mold of the regular season for Notre Dame basketball, so we thought, 'Why can't we do it in the postseason?'

At the end of the day, that's why we're playing the games, for the postseason.

It takes locking in on the task at hand and honing in on what you need to do in order to be successful in the NBA postseason.

You have to give yourself a chance to get in the postseason.

A lot of times, I've always looked at pitching in the All-Star Game as a prelude to how you pitch in the postseason, sometimes how you might have to pitch on two days' rest out of the pen, only throw one inning and then you have to go face the best hitters. That's what you do in the All-Star Game.

I think the thing with our team is during the postseason, our best games that we've played during the postseason, we strung at-bats together. It's not necessarily going up there trying to hit a home run, but it's trying to put up a good at-bat for the next guy.

During my 11-year coaching tenure, Saint Joseph's won or tied for the Big Five championship seven times, went to 10 postseason tournaments - including seven NCAA appearances - and reached the Final Four in 1961.

Keep winning and get to the postseason, I won 20 games and they just dumped one beer on my head. It feels good because I'm helping my team win.

We want to try and transform the Red Sox into a team like the Braves or the Yankees, where you can almost count on the postseason every year.

I think of guys like Troy Polamalu. These are guys who didn't see much action in the regular season, but when it came postseason time, they made their plays. That's ultimately how they got their names. Ed Reed. Troy Polamalu. Ty Law. Asante Samuel.

You can't compare regular season to postseason.

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.

I think scoring first is huge in the postseason.

Let's not have a postseason tournament. Let's have a preseason tournament where you're guaranteed three games: we go somewhere, and all the fans come in, and we celebrate our league. We'll have great games to start the year, and we'll do it prior to the year.

I was in the postseason twice and I'm thankful for that.

I don't have anything to prove at all. I've pitched in a lot of games. I've had far more good games than bad games in the postseason. I know that some people may not remember that, for whatever reason.

That's what it's all about - postseason baseball.

That's what we all play for, is to play in the postseason.