Quotes About Postseason

In the postseason, as many ways as you can get on base as possible is big.

I'm happy for my kids getting postseason opportunities, for both of them playing in the Super Bowl back to back. I never would have envisioned anything like that.

Baseball's postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks.

I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I'm not saying it's good or bad; it kind of is what it is.

In the postseason, every possession counts, so it's the little things.

I'm consistently making adjustments. You're going to have to do that in the postseason, too.

A lot of times, I've always looked at pitching in the All-Star Game as a prelude to how you pitch in the postseason, sometimes how you might have to pitch on two days' rest out of the pen, only throw one inning and then you have to go face the best hitters. That's what you do in the All-Star Game.

It takes locking in on the task at hand and honing in on what you need to do in order to be successful in the NBA postseason.

To be able to pitch in the postseason is great, and to be able to go out there and throw the ball well and help your team win is a great feeling.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

I was in the postseason twice and I'm thankful for that.

I think scoring first is huge in the postseason.

During my 11-year coaching tenure, Saint Joseph's won or tied for the Big Five championship seven times, went to 10 postseason tournaments - including seven NCAA appearances - and reached the Final Four in 1961.

I think it's very, very tough to compare postseason and in-season, just for the simple fact that there's the heightened levels of energy on both sides of the ball.

I've actually enjoyed pitching on the road in the postseason. You go out there, and you're getting booed, and it's fun to try to silence the crowd.

The regular season is awesome. It's fun. But postseason, that intensity and adrenaline you get from it is a lot.

You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.

We want to try and transform the Red Sox into a team like the Braves or the Yankees, where you can almost count on the postseason every year.

In a way, if we want to make the postseason, we feel like we have to win out. We have got some good games coming up, but we are going to have to buckle down and get the job done somehow.

I was in the postseason twice and I'm thankful for that.

I think of guys like Troy Polamalu. These are guys who didn't see much action in the regular season, but when it came postseason time, they made their plays. That's ultimately how they got their names. Ed Reed. Troy Polamalu. Ty Law. Asante Samuel.

I think the thing with our team is during the postseason, our best games that we've played during the postseason, we strung at-bats together. It's not necessarily going up there trying to hit a home run, but it's trying to put up a good at-bat for the next guy.

We were able to change the mold of the regular season for Notre Dame basketball, so we thought, 'Why can't we do it in the postseason?'

I would say from top to bottom, the SEC is strongest. Every now and then, another conference is going to have a great number one team. But week in and week out, having to play a really tough schedule that's preparing you for the post­season, there's no better conference than the SEC.