Playoffs Quotes · Page 9

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

— Charles M. Schulz

I don't just think regular season. I think playoffs. World Series. That's how I think.

— Mariano Rivera

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

I think as long as you have Kobe Bryant on your team, anything can happen in the playoffs.

— Jeanie Buss

I've been to playoffs before. That should be everybody's goal is the playoffs.

— Enes Kanter

I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team. When it's really close, usually one team pulls…

— Doc Rivers

When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA…

— Red Auerbach

The NHL is the best league in the world, but it's a grind. You sometimes forget, especially if you are losing, or…

— Thomas Vanek

Joe Montana had bad games in the playoffs against the Giants and Chicago Bears; that doesn't stop us from considering him as…

— Cris Carter

I mean, I was still getting used to being in the big leagues, then you're thrown in there and it's not overwhelming,…

— Corey Seager

I would like to be in the playoffs. I would hope that there is some opportunity to go and play in the…

— Jarome Iginla

It's easy to go somewhere where everything already is set up and they've been to the playoffs four, five years in a…

— Austin Rivers

It feels good to win a game, because it's tough to win in this league, and then when you talk about the…

— Sean McDermott

The goal every year is to win the Super Bowl, not just to get to the playoffs, not just to win a…

— Calvin Johnson

Only one champion stands at the end of the year, so just making the playoffs isn't enough.

— David Fizdale

The playoffs is ‑ I think I took it for granted a little bit. My first two years I kind of just…

— Clayton Kershaw

“Life would be better if the Leafs would make the playoffs. Life would be perfect if they’d win the Stanley Cup.”

— Tom Earle

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

— Joe Flacco

I don't want to limit to the playoffs, I want to win a championship.

— Maya Moore

I think I can play in the big leagues 10 or 15 years. But more important to me is winning-win, make the playoffs.

— Carlos Beltran

Yeah, I think when you don't make it to the playoffs and you're watching those games, I think there's envy in every…

— Jason McCourty

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

— C. J. McCollum

We owe it to the fans and we owe it to ourselves to give it everything we have to try and put…

— Connor McDavid

Especially when it comes to the Finals and playoffs, your team needs you mentally and physically.

— Zaza Pachulia

You want to be the guy who makes an impact in every game. In this sport it's all about results-winning games and…

— Martin St. Louis

The most important thing is not the regular year, it's the playoffs.

— Alexander Ovechkin

That's what you work all season for, to get into the playoff games, and you don't want to blow it.

— Ray Nitschke

Eli Manning is the one man I just don't want to see in the playoffs. He is a flatliner.

— Jon Gruden

When I was playing, there were only eight teams in each league, and you didn't have any playoffs.

— Red Schoendienst

I know it’s been 15 years since the Bills made the playoffs. Well get ready, man, we’re going. We are going.

— Rex Ryan

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

— Serge Ibaka

I dont believe it wins championships. (It) gets you to the playoffs.

— Byron Scott

Turnovers are huge throughout the course of the regular season, but particularly in the playoffs.

— Matthew Slater

When you start using terms like national championship and playoffs, that's very rare air.

— Urban Meyer

You apologize for losing in the playoffs, but you don't apologize for getting in.

— Ron Rivera

For me, not making the playoffs is a wasted season, a waste of time.

— Zaza Pachulia

Obviously, if you go to the playoffs you have an opportunity to go to the Super Bowl.

— Amari Cooper