Quotes About Achievement

It's one thing to make it to the NBA. It's one thing to make the playoffs your first year. It's one thing to make the playoffs your second year. But if you want to be great, you've got to continue to work.

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.

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

I don't pay attention to accolades or any of that stuff because I think it can serve as a distraction, so for me, I just focus on winning games, trying to make the playoffs.

I want to fight for the playoffs.

I went to Golden State and helped them get to the playoffs my first year there, and they haven't been to the playoffs in 13 years. I played in Charlotte... and I got them to the playoffs. So, every team I go to, I make them better.

Not being in the playoffs is frustrating.

I can say all of the goals I want individually, but if we make the playoffs those individual accolades will come.

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.

After going through the playoffs, you definitely get a sense for how important it is to go through it at least once before you win.

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 don't want to limit to the playoffs, I want to win a championship.

I just want to get better, compete for the playoffs and have that lead to a championship.

It feels good to win a game, because it's tough to win in this league, and then when you talk about the playoffs and being in it for two of three years, what a blessing.

Joe Montana had bad games in the playoffs against the Giants and Chicago Bears; that doesn't stop us from considering him as possibly the best.

I personally want to play in the playoffs.

Everyone in the League wants to play in the playoffs; I am no different.

I'm trying to go to the playoffs. That's my goal. Everything else is going to fall in place.

Going forward, what I can accomplish, I always have seen myself playing in the playoffs, playing deep, and winning. I want to be part of that and feel that.

You apologize for losing in the playoffs, but you don't apologize for getting in.

When I came into this league, it was a Phoenix Suns team consistently going to the playoffs, and they had aspirations to go deep into the playoffs. People were always harping on sacrifice, what you have to give up for the success of the team.

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.

Playing pretty big minutes in the playoffs and having career games in the playoffs is something you dream of as a kid but never really think will happen.