Quotes About Playoffs

It's easy to go somewhere where everything already is set up and they've been to the playoffs four, five years in a row. I've been on those teams. Those are great experiences.

Coming to Denver, that's all we talked about - championship and going to the championship. Playoffs was not even a problem. We knew that we were going to the playoffs every season.

Experience I think is a big part of getting better and being a better team and going to the playoffs and toward the championship for sure.

To see other teams in the playoffs and battling for the Cup, it's something that gives you a little inspiration.

The playoffs are a different animal, and any team can beat you on any day.

It's the playoffs; you have to pick up the intensity.

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.

In Kansas City, most of the time, if we'd have made it to the playoffs, we would have been happy. But our team wasn't that good.

I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it's bittersweet.

In this game called football, we don't know who's going to the playoffs.

The first thought is always about making the playoffs. That's the tough part. And once you get there, only then you can allow yourself to start thinking how you are going to play in the playoffs against other teams. And a lot is left to chance then. There's an element of luck as well: sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you do not.

Every team starts out at the beginning of the year saying, 'We want to win a championship,' but you've got to have a goal of getting to the playoffs first.

A manager has to convince his hitters that they have to get on base for the next guy and that no player can do it by himself. Sometimes that isn't easy. In the playoffs, you can get into trouble because everybody wants to be a hero.

Ultimately, I want to make the playoffs.

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

I've been on teams that never made it to the playoffs. It wasn't fun playing meaningless football.

Playoffs, you know, defense is elevated even more.

In the playoffs, it changes a little bit with defenses tightening up and every little thing is put under the microscope.

I really don't know what it takes to make it to the playoffs.

During the playoffs, some players have more second-guessing and outright doubt to deal with than others.

The playoffs are the playoffs. You just play who is put in front of you.

It's the playoffs. You find a way to get through.

We've played with a lot of confidence and that's been the key so far. Hopefully, we can take more confidence into the playoffs.

When you're in the playoffs, you have to get easy baskets and you have to limit their easy baskets.