Quotes About Playoffs

The most important thing is win enough games to get into the playoffs. Then, once you get into the playoffs, win.

Whatever you do during the regular season doesn't matter once you get to the playoffs.

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

I always watch the playoffs.

One of the things that was really attractive to me about Fox is they have the NFL, and baseball playoffs.

I think the playoffs heighten everything, you're fighting the same opponent over and over again.

Being rested and playing bad is not going to be a good formula going into the playoffs. That's not good.

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.

The first game of the playoffs is the worst. After that, you kind of settle down.

I think you win one game in the playoffs and then you don't go any further than that, it's obviously good but it's not like something that you're like, 'Yeah!'

Every time you don't make the playoffs, you have something inside that you want to prove again next year.

You know, the thing about the great receivers? They won. They were in the playoffs. They were making big plays.

Once you get a taste of winning, a taste of the playoffs, you just want to do that even more.

Being in the playoffs and competing, that's what you want as a player.

You can't compare regular season to postseason.

No matter what the trends are in the NBA - teams going big, going small, getting more efficient with analytics - the ability for a player to create his own shot, then convert tough shots, will always be a weapon, particularly when you get to the playoffs.

If anything during the playoffs, I try to golf more. I'll just do anything I can to be normal. I don't really designate any time differently or try to weed out distractions.

The football playoffs feature one-off affairs, without bad feelings building from weekend to weekend. In addition, football uses platoons for offense and defense and kicking, so only the interior linemen have a chance to really get up close and personal with one another.

When you have a tough year or a year that didn't go the way you wanted it, especially the playoffs and all that and not being able to take advantage of our team and our talent on our team, you feel that. And whenever something is taken away from you like that, you definitely cherish it more.

I like to, in the playoffs, I like to take a body of work in the last month. I just don't care what happened in September because I don't think it's really relevant.

I used to run the band hockey pool - regular season and playoffs. I would write weekly reports, which were meant to demoralize and diffuse enjoyment for others.

Try to put our guys in different positions, try some different combinations, et cetera, to prepare us for the playoffs, which is what matters.

As you get older - I'm not old, but 29 is relative in goalie years - you like to see your number of games taper down a little bit so you are fresher for playoffs.