Quotes About Success

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

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.

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.

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 just want us to be playing our best basketball here when the playoffs start, and in the right mindset.

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.

When you're playing to get into the playoffs, your contract is the last thing on your mind.

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.

You want to see the team that is in the playoffs.

You have to be able to win on the road if you want to win in the playoffs.

We want to play in the playoffs as a team.

I'm dying to play in the playoffs. Dying to bring a little success back to Edmonton. I think the fans deserve it, the city deserves it.

I think as long as you have Kobe Bryant on your team, anything can happen in the playoffs.

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'm a big believer that if you can have success in the playoffs, when it means the most and when the game is at its highest pace, it always carries into the next year and it gives a player confidence.

Certain games aren't going to be my game. Certain games aren't going to be other people's games. As long as we win with the main goal to make the playoffs, that's all that matters.

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.