Quotes About Performance

You always take rest over rust in the playoffs.

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.

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

When you get into the playoffs, there become a lot of different storylines. But it's all about putting together a team that competes for a title.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Especially when it comes to the Finals and playoffs, your team needs you mentally and physically.

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.

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

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

I always watch the playoffs.

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.

Obviously, in the playoffs you play through things, and that's what I wanted to do. But there's also the reality that no matter how bad you want to play and how bad you want to get in there, there's also a question of how effective you are going to be.

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

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

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

It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.

I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity. If I'd been in a school play, I'd probably have sneezed and messed everything up.