Quotes About Intensity

Every moment is big in the playoffs.

I get excited for the regular season also, but it's just added excitement when the playoffs start.

It's the playoffs. Teams are gonna go on runs.

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

In the playoffs, all eyes are on you.

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

For every team in the playoffs, their defensive intensity, their defensive attention to detail just becomes greater.

In the playoffs, it's win or you go home.

I believe that every single game in the Playoffs, round 1 to Eastern Conference Finals, every single game is a different game.

I just want to go deep in the playoffs and be put in that situation where I'm locked in and the game and the season is on the line.

You want to be ramping up toward the playoffs. You want to be peaking as you're heading in.

In the regular season you always say, 'Take it one game at a time.' But the playoffs, they kind of make you do that.

Playoffs are fun.

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

When I come off the bench, I have that intensity and that effort. That's something all of us guys are trying to bring, but especially the guys off the bench. Because we can play a role in any game, let alone the playoffs.

Whatever you do during the regular season doesn't matter once you get to the playoffs.

I always watch the playoffs.

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

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

There are no plays run for your sake as a defender - you just have to want it.

And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

It is the best feeling in the world to have a close game come down to just a couple of plays and you are able to do it.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.