Quotes About Competition

Playoff basketball isn't about who scores, stats or putting numbers up on the board. It's just about winning at the end of the day. When you play a game in a series, it becomes chess. It becomes who can outsmart the other team.

You go through playoff series and people forget about them. Nobody forgets about a Rangers-Devils series. It's demanding.

Every playoff game is kind of like its own movie.

A lot of things change in the playoffs.

We want to be in playoffs, we want to fight for a title.

It's fun running out onto the field. It's much more fun playing in the playoffs.

The most important thing is not the regular year, it's the playoffs.

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.

It's the Playoffs. This is what you play for.

I've never been to playoffs.

It's easy to go somewhere where everything already is set up and they've been to the playoffs four, five years in a row. I've been on those teams. Those are great experiences.

To see other teams in the playoffs and battling for the Cup, it's something that gives you a little inspiration.

The playoffs are a different animal, and any team can beat you on any day.

It's the playoffs; you have to pick up the intensity.

In this game called football, we don't know who's going to the playoffs.

The first thought is always about making the playoffs. That's the tough part. And once you get there, only then you can allow yourself to start thinking how you are going to play in the playoffs against other teams. And a lot is left to chance then. There's an element of luck as well: sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you do not.

Ultimately, I want to make the playoffs.

I've been on teams that never made it to the playoffs. It wasn't fun playing meaningless football.

Playoffs, you know, defense is elevated even more.

In the playoffs, it changes a little bit with defenses tightening up and every little thing is put under the microscope.

The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.

I really don't know what it takes to make it to the playoffs.

The playoffs are the playoffs. You just play who is put in front of you.

People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.