Quotes About Success

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.

That's what you need to win a Cup and go far in the playoffs, you need every guy to be accountable in all areas of the ice.

I personally want to play in the playoffs.

We owe it to the fans and we owe it to ourselves to give it everything we have to try and put ourselves in the playoffs.

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

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

The team that can be consistent - for the most part all year - is going to be the team that is going to get into the playoffs.

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

I am confident that I am a young coach that continues to improve and continues to get better and have been able to find success in the regular season and haven't been able to find it in two completely different circumstances in the playoffs.

If you commit to the defensive end of the floor, you're going to have a chance to win every night. And if you're a great defensive team, you're going to go to the playoffs.

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

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.

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 feel like any team I'm on, I can help take that team to the playoffs.

For me, playoffs was always the goal.

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.

Whether it's the playoffs, whether it's not the playoffs, it doesn't matter as long as we're getting better.