Quotes About Commitment

The only way you're going to improve is playing games and learning, being a regular week on week.

This is what you do your routine for, so when playoff basketball comes, it helps you stay fresh, sharp, energized, strong - all that.

That's the reason why you work so hard all year long, to put yourself in a playoff situation.

I really pride myself on not missing starts and being able to take the ball when it's my turn, I want to be able to do my job and take my turn. Especially in the playoffs.

Playing the whole season and going through the whole playoffs in 2011 was the hardest 10-month period.

I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed.

You put in the work, you should get to the playoffs.

You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.

If there's a loose ball, dive on the floor. If you can take a charge, do that. The playoffs are all about scratching. Whatever it takes.

One of the best things is to be able to go to the playoffs and win a championship. After you taste the first one, you want to go back every year.

One person can't bring you to the playoffs or win a championship.

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.

We want to play in the playoffs as a team.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.