Playoffs Quotes · Page 7

There's nothing less than that. I don't care about just going to the playoffs; I've been to the playoffs before.

— Allen Iverson

I mean, nobody wants to lose. And nobody wants to be playing at the end of the year when you don't have…

— Mike Evans

We play the game to win. Win games and get into the playoffs and get into the Super Bowl.

— Jordy Nelson

The beauty about the playoffs is how you make an adjustment, how you come back game-to-game, and to be locked in and…

— Tobias Harris

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

— Shaun Livingston

Everyone in the League wants to play in the playoffs; I am no different.

— Connor McDavid

I just want to win as a team, take road games, play some of the top teams and beat them to make…

— Kevin Knox

The QB is going to be judged, fair or unfair, on success in the playoffs. You remember QBs who have won 3…

— Aaron Rodgers

My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there…

— Dwight Gooden

You look at it every year, how many teams are in and out of the playoffs, and how close the league is,…

— Carey Price

There is always a reason to play the game - whether it's to be better, be in the playoffs, for your numbers…

— Francisco Lindor

The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to…

— Tim McCarver

I think you win one game in the playoffs and then you don't go any further than that, it's obviously good but…

— Luke Kuechly

I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make…

— Chili Davis

I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most…

— Chris Osgood

It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's…

— Albert Pujols

Whatever happened in the regular season seems to not matter in the playoffs.

— Carl Crawford

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

— Steve Nash

There's nothing that can teach you about the playoffs besides going through it.

— Dwane Casey

I get excited for the regular season also, but it's just added excitement when the playoffs start.

— Robert Horry

The thing I've always liked about the playoffs is the finality of it and knowing there's so much importance on every play.

— Troy Aikman

Everybody plays defence in the playoffs, but can you do it every night in the regular season? And some teams can, some…

— Fred VanVleet

As you get late into the season every game is important. Every game is going to decide whether you make the playoffs…

— Eli Manning

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

— Danny Amendola

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

— Chase Elliott

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

— Amari Cooper

We're trying to play big time in the playoffs and do something special.

— Jordan Clarkson

I joke that every time I'm in the playoffs, it feels like I'm in the Super Bowl.

— Chris Long

It's fun running out onto the field. It's much more fun playing in the playoffs.

— Adam Vinatieri

It's cool to make the playoffs. It's not cool to lose in the first round anymore. The goal is to make the…

— Kyle Lowry

Playoff basketball ... you've got to treat every possession like it's your last.

— Paul Pierce

Being solid in your own zone, being a good faceoff guy, those are things that are all important as you go deep…

— Connor McDavid

Making the playoffs is hard to come by, so if you can help contribute to your team's success it's always a successful…

— Adam Vinatieri

It was definitely an empty feeling coming into the game knowing we had no chance for the playoffs. My heart really sank.

— Dwight Howard

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

— Jason Pierre-Paul

I think in the playoffs you have to be able to run the ball to get to the Super Bowl.

— Derrick Henry

In the playoffs, the best players are supposed to play better. I did. It made no difference.

— Jerry West

When it comes to playoff time, I pull the energy and the motivation.

— Pau Gasol

You always want to be the guy that's able to get the game-winner, especially in overtime in NHL playoffs.

— T. J. Oshie

When you're playing to get into the playoffs, your contract is the last thing on your mind.

— Nnamdi Asomugha