Quotes About Playoffs

Life is like a game, Charlie Brown... Sometimes you win... Sometimes you lose." "I'll be happy if I just make the playoffs.

COVID has caused no shortage of problems. One of them is the possibility we could be off for nine months. That's too long. We're not in the playoffs, summer league has been canceled and training camp is pushed back. We need some help, but we aren't really getting it.

The Process is never going to end. It's an ongoing thing. I don't think it's ever going to stop. As I have explained before, it's a process for making it to the playoffs, it's another one to make the conference finals, another one to actually go to The Finals and win the championship.

In the playoffs, it's win or go home. You might not have a chance to look back at a game and say, 'Man, we didn't box out here.'

I am poised and confident in what I do, so I think whether it's shot clock winding down in the playoffs or regular season game, I'm going to have the same mentality.

Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.

I've been through losing so much in this league, so to finally get a taste of winning and what the playoffs are going to feel like, I'm excited.

Winning the Rookie of the Year would be nice but making the playoffs would be even nicer for me.

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

The points format rewards you for having wins throughout the playoffs.

Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching — mostly watching on television — we lay waste our powers of identification and enthusiasm and, in time, attention as more and more closing rallies and crucial putts and late field goals and final playoffs and sudden deaths and world records and world championships unreel themselves ceaselessly before our half-lidded eyes.

What the Jets did with Mark Sanchez, they took a rookie quarterback and went pretty far with him.

One thing you know about playoff competition is this: If you have a hot quarterback and your defense can take the ball away, you don't need to have a dominant defense anymore.

The playoffs are like nothing else. The intensity is off the meat rack and I'm looking forward to going back.

Fifty-nine or 54 or 52 or 49 wins isn't going to mean a whole lot. What's going to mean a whole lot to me, our organization, and our fans is how we perform in the playoffs and how deep a run we can make, and that's what we're setting our sights on.

One of the things I learned playing on a good team is when the team wins, when you make the playoffs, everybody looks good.

If you just look at the numbers, you pretty much have to get 10 wins to get into the playoffs, sometimes more than that.

On the personal level, it's hard for a goalie. You don't get awards for save percentage or anything like that. Your work is really put into how many wins you can get, how many times you can get your team in the playoffs and all that. So I took a lot of pride in winning.

In this league, it's so easy to get caught up in if this team loses and this team wins, and you get there, we can have home field.

The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country...You're forgotten by Thanksgiving.

In 1999, I got fired as coach of New England. In three years in New England, we actually did better than most people think. We were 27-21, won the AFC division title, went to the playoffs twice.

That's the best part and why you play the game - to get to the playoffs and to get to those big games, especially the ones where you have to come through or you go home. There's so much pressure, but as an athlete you want to thrive under that pressure because that separates the great from good players.

I have people that I'm close to that give me things to read throughout the season, and in particular in the playoffs and the postseason.

You can technically lose money during the playoffs if you don't raise your ticket prices.