Quotes About Focus

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

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.

You don't talk playoffs a few weeks before training camp.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.

Like I always say, it's not how many great plays you make; it's how few bad ones you make. I know fans, and even some losing coaches, are enamored with long pass completions or the great run plays, but that doesn't offset the interception or the fumble.

I need all the energy I can to go out and make plays.

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

The big-time player makes big-time plays in big-time games and that's what we need to keep doing.

Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.

I just do my job; I'm out there to make plays and play football.

Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

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.

By the time I was 10 years old, my entire life was football. Training, reading, watching, even playing football on PlayStation. I was totally focused on it. I especially loved the creative players - the maestros.

You cannot please everybody. You keep marching forward.