Playoffs Quotes · Page 6

Toughest [lineup] I've faced. Hopefully, if it comes down to the playoffs, I can get my revenge.

— Mark Buehrle

In the playoffs, it is do or die. You win or you go home. As a competitor, you love it.

— Ben Roethlisberger

Good teams make the playoffs, hot teams win the playoffs.

— Derek Jeter

It's been a long time since I've been in the playoffs. I want to get back there.

— Rafael Soriano

You live to play in the playoffs. It's like your heart is ripped out.

— Darcy Tucker

The most important thing is playoff sex…er…um...I mean success

— Marc Crawford

What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

— Jack Adams

He did so well, I made him our Game 1 starter in the playoffs. He impressed me enough to do that.

— Xavi Hernandez

It's a reality here. We're a team that at this time of the season, with teams trying to get to the playoffs,…

— Nate McMillan

Yeah, once you get a taste of the playoffs - I couldn't imagine not making it back to the playoffs. Give credit…

— D'Angelo Russell

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

— Derek Fisher

When you get into the playoffs, there become a lot of different storylines. But it's all about putting together a team that…

— Erik Spoelstra

I think that's the biggest thing that I've learned in the playoffs is to just be yourself, don't get too high, don't…

— Corey Seager

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

— Fred VanVleet

I understand when you have great players on losing teams who are tired of losing, struggling in the playoffs every year. You're…

— Paul Pierce

As you get older - I'm not old, but 29 is relative in goalie years - you like to see your number…

— Carey Price

I just love the Buffalo market. Say what you want about their fans, it'll be December and they've been out of the…

— Bill Cowher

We had different circumstances. At 7-5, understanding that every game at that point is going to be a playoff game got us…

— Jerome Bettis

As far as coming out on top with the right mentality and it molding you into the best human being you can…

— D'Angelo Russell

COVID has caused no shortage of problems. One of them is the possibility we could be off for nine months. That's too…

— John Collins

We don't tell the officials to change the standard for the playoffs, but as we all know, time and space tends to…

— Gary Bettman

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…

— Joel Embiid

As an organization, would we like to be in a better spot Everybody would like to know they're in the playoffs. But…

— John Tortorella

It's more frustrating. My expectation probably wasn't that I'd play [during the playoffs], but I was just trying to make sure that…

— Sidney Crosby

I've been fortunate enough to do pretty well in playoffs. I feel pretty comfortable in them.

— Sergio Garcia

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

— Ricky Rubio

It's the NHL playoffs, I'm 20 years old, I'm finding it out the hard way that playoffs aren't easy.

— Carey Price

No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot.

— Orel Hershiser

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

— Saku Koivu

I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs.

— Coby Bell

When games get tight in the playoffs, especially in the Finals, there's no space. There's no clean looks.

— C. J. McCollum

You have to be able to win on the road if you want to win in the playoffs.

— Brad Marchand

We cannot think about playoffs. We just need to play the games.

— Nikola Jokic

At the same time, preparation is important to playoff success.

— Barry Trotz

That's what the playoffs are about. our superstars are going to play well. It's what your others do.

— Danny Green

I don't care much about my personal record. I just want to be able to pitch in the playoffs.

— CC Sabathia

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

— Mike D'Antoni

You know, we were going through the playoffs every year with the Braves.

— John Smoltz

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

— Patrick Beverley

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