Quotes About Dedication

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

I don't want to limit to the playoffs, I want to win a championship.

I just want to get better, compete for the playoffs and have that lead to a championship.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

This is what you dream about when you're a kid: You dream about March Madness, you dream about the NBA playoffs.

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

I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.

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

Some say we play at PSG for the money but it's not the case. If a player plays for money, he'll go to China.

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

I am just a guy who plays drums.

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

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.

I grew up in Georgia, and I started acting in plays when I was like eight years old, and I always memorized everyone's parts, not just my own, and I always memorized everyone's blocking. Whenever anyone wasn't there, I would always jump in. I was very hands-on.