Quotes About Determination

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.

You don't sell the team short and say, 'We're just trying to make the playoffs,' or anything like that.

The playoffs bring the best out of people.

It's all about the playoffs for me. I don't care about the regular season.

I've always felt like I'm a winning player. Like I deserved it to be in the playoffs - to be battling.

I don't want to get dunked on too much, and I want to make it to the playoffs.

It's the playoffs, man. If you don't get excited about the playoffs, you don't even deserve to be playing basketball.

I've been to playoffs before. That should be everybody's goal is the playoffs.

I don't just want to make the playoffs or get to the first or second round. When I compete or make it to the playoffs, I expect to win every time.

I want to make the playoffs, and I want to compete.

The playoffs is when I'm at my best.

Every moment is big in the playoffs.

I'm tired of not being in the playoffs... I hate watching them on TV.

I want to fight for the playoffs.

I just want us to be playing our best basketball here when the playoffs start, and in the right mindset.

When you're playing to get into the playoffs, your contract is the last thing on your mind.

The playoffs are tough. It's a different game.

It's cool to make the playoffs. It's not cool to lose in the first round anymore. The goal is to make the Finals.

You want to see the team that is in the playoffs.

It's the playoffs. Everything kind of amps up a little bit.

We want to play in the playoffs as a team.

I think as long as you have Kobe Bryant on your team, anything can happen 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.

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.