Quotes About Competition

When you're playing a good team, not too many point guards want to go one on one. When you're playing a not-so-good team, teams that are fighting to make the playoffs, guys are going to want to try and get their own. It's just a different read of each team.

There is just something about the playoffs and the atmosphere, and feeling like it's you against the world, that gets you going.

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.

It's the NHL playoffs, I'm 20 years old, I'm finding it out the hard way that playoffs aren't easy.

You look at it every year, how many teams are in and out of the playoffs, and how close the league is, it seems like every team is not too far away.

I mean, nobody wants to lose. And nobody wants to be playing at the end of the year when you don't have a chance to make the playoffs.

I want to be in the playoffs.

The most important thing is win enough games to get into the playoffs. Then, once you get into the playoffs, win.

I always watch the playoffs.

I think the playoffs heighten everything, you're fighting the same opponent over and over again.

Being rested and playing bad is not going to be a good formula going into the playoffs. That's not good.

For me, playoffs was always the goal.

The first game of the playoffs is the worst. After that, you kind of settle down.

I think you win one game in the playoffs and then you don't go any further than that, it's obviously good but it's not like something that you're like, 'Yeah!'

This is what you dream about when you're a kid: You dream about March Madness, you dream about the NBA playoffs.

Every time you don't make the playoffs, you have something inside that you want to prove again next year.

Once you get to the playoffs, anything can happen.

You know, the thing about the great receivers? They won. They were in the playoffs. They were making big plays.

Once you get a taste of winning, a taste of the playoffs, you just want to do that even more.

Being in the playoffs and competing, that's what you want as a player.

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.

The players have got to make the plays.

Anybody plays a good match, you can beat anybody on a given day.