Quotes About Competition

When you're in the playoffs, you have to get easy baskets and you have to limit their easy baskets.

The beauty about the playoffs is how you make an adjustment, how you come back game-to-game, and to be locked in and focused to win.

The playoffs, everybody gets a little frustrated. You lose, your season's over.

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.

The NBA playoffs have the highest ceiling in all of sports.

In the playoffs, the best players are supposed to play better. I did. It made no difference.

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

Eli Manning is the one man I just don't want to see in the playoffs. He is a flatliner.

The playoffs bring the best out of people.

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

Every game is its own thing in the playoffs. When you're in them long enough, you understand. If a playoff series goes six or seven games, it's like a rollercoaster. Your emotions are so up, then they're so down. 'You can't do anything right! Then everything's going your way!'

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 just want to win as a team, take road games, play some of the top teams and beat them to make the playoffs.

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

I'm pretty sure everybody in the NBA wants to make the playoffs. Every player, every coach, every organization wants to make 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.

The playoffs is when I'm at my best.

Do I want to play for a contending team? Yeah. Do I want to go to the playoffs? Yeah. Do I want to win a ring? Of course I do.

Every moment is big in the playoffs.

You're coaching Kentucky - and you have a chance to change lives. That's not what this is up there in the NBA. You have assets. You're trying to piece a team together. You're trying to win more games than the other guy. You're trying to advance in the playoffs, and if you don't, they'll find somebody else that can.

You never want an injury as you're getting ready for the playoffs.

I want to fight for the playoffs.