When you’re with a team and you’re comfortable there, everything seems O.K. You play a lot of minutes. You make the playoffs. You don’t miss practice – all of that stuff. So when you leave for the summer, you’re like, ‘See you next year!’ You expect maybe some changes, but nothing involving you.
When you start using terms like national championship and playoffs, that’s very rare air.
I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in ’95.
I have people that I’m close to that give me things to read throughout the season, and in particular in the playoffs and the postseason.
There are many reasons why I hate college football. The 4-hour games drone on longer than Steve Lyons during the American League playoffs. The ever-expanding season threatens to creep into early July. Boise, Idaho, hosts a bowl game. And it’s played on blue artificial turf.
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.
Obviously, there is a high standard here of getting into the playoffs and having a chance at the ultimate goal, and that is the Super Bowl.
When you suffer a few losses in the playoffs, it forces you back into the gym early on.
You can technically lose money during the playoffs if you don’t raise your ticket prices.
It’s the playoffs; you have to pick up the intensity.
It was an exciting time for me personally because the number of times I’ve been to the playoffs, that was the opportunity to obtain the first ring. That was special, that’s for sure.
I went to Golden State and helped them get to the playoffs my first year there, and they haven’t been to the playoffs in 13 years. I played in Charlotte… and I got them to the playoffs. So, every team I go to, I make them better.
Not only do you have 16 regular-season games, you also have four preseason games. Then if you make the playoffs, you can have four more games before you get to the Super Bowl. So you can already have 24 games without the 18-game season. And 24 games takes a real toll on somebody’s body.
I always watch the playoffs.
You know, the thing about the great receivers? They won. They were in the playoffs. They were making big plays.
You look at it every year, how many teams are in and out of the playoffs, and how close the league is, it seems like every team is not too far away.
I don’t just want to make the playoffs or get to the first or second round. When I compete or make it to the playoffs, I expect to win every time.
It’s the NHL playoffs, I’m 20 years old, I’m finding it out the hard way that playoffs aren’t easy.
It doesn’t matter if it’s game one or game 82, playoffs or whatever. Sometimes the basketball gods don’t play in your favor that night.
The playoffs, everybody gets a little frustrated. You lose, your season’s over.
I’m not going to make it the all – everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, but I’m not gonna anguish over it like I have in the past.
You never want an injury as you’re getting ready for the playoffs.
My journey of self-discovery and self-acknowledgement began in my hometown of Los Angeles and has taken me through two state high school championships, the NCAA Final Four and the Elite Eight, and nine playoffs in 12 NBA seasons.
I think that type of mindset, no matter if you’re 16-0, you’re rolling through the playoffs, no matter what the situation is, there’s always going to be somebody that’s doubting you or saying something about you. I think for certain guys individually, it may be something that kind of gives you that extra kick.
Going forward, what I can accomplish, I always have seen myself playing in the playoffs, playing deep, and winning. I want to be part of that and feel that.
I have to admit, between the Seahawks games and the Blazer games and playoffs games, we’re talking about close to 100 games a year, so I don’t really follow other sports a lot.
I really don’t know what it takes to make it to the playoffs.
The game against the Vikings back in my second year stands out. It was kind of a turnaround for us. It allowed us to make a run at the playoffs for the first time in quite a while. The memories are so many it’s hard to pin one down.
It’s the playoffs. There’s no room for okay.
A lot of people don’t understand that playing in the NBA, the toughest thing is to win an NBA championship. I was in the NBA 15 years. I’d been in the playoffs. I’d been in the Finals. But it took me 15 years to finally win one.
My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.
Every time you don’t make the playoffs, you have something inside that you want to prove again next year.
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.
The OHL compared to the NHL playoffs, I don’t think they really compare. You can’t really rely on that experience.
I don’t just think regular season. I think playoffs. World Series. That’s how I think.
It’s the Playoffs. This is what you play for.
I’m tired of not being in the playoffs… I hate watching them on TV.
At the end of the day, I’ve played six years, haven’t made the playoffs yet, that burns me and hurts my heart, so I really want to be playing.
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.
Playoffs are like another season to be completely honest. I don’t know how to describe it, but it’s kind of like a different wave of energy.
It’s the playoffs. Everything kind of amps up a little bit.
Everyone starts the playoffs with the same record. It doesn’t matter who won 70 games or whatever.
When you have a year of experience and also the experience of playing in the playoffs, it just makes a world of difference.
I think when you saw this year’s playoffs, Miami and Detroit have a pretty fierce rivalry now. Also, the Suns and San Antonio look like they’re starting to develop something there. I look forward to seeing those rivalries continue and develop.
Playing pretty big minutes in the playoffs and having career games in the playoffs is something you dream of as a kid but never really think will happen.
Try to put our guys in different positions, try some different combinations, et cetera, to prepare us for the playoffs, which is what matters.
Playoffs are fun.
Every game is its own thing in the playoffs. When you’re in them long enough, you understand. If a playoff series goes six or seven games, it’s like a rollercoaster. Your emotions are so up, then they’re so down. ‘You can’t do anything right! Then everything’s going your way!’
I’ve been on teams that never made it to the playoffs. It wasn’t fun playing meaningless football.
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.
I want to make the playoffs, and I want to compete.
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 what you play for. You don’t play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.
That’s a moment I will never forget in my life, never ever. It was the first time I made the playoffs. After we lost to the Celtics, I told myself, I never want to play a season without making the playoffs, because it was so much fun.
The thing I’ve always liked about the playoffs is the finality of it and knowing there’s so much importance on every play.
In the playoffs, it’s win or you go home.
That’s everyone’s motivation: to get to the playoffs and win the World Series.
I think it’s fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically.
You have so much fun playing games. We all love basketball, so we never want the season to end, ’cause then it’s five months of sitting around and watching the playoffs.
A good season for me is going to the playoffs and making a run for the Super Bowl and having a good record.
In the playoffs, it’s not going to be pretty. There’s going to be some games where you don’t score. But are you going to take a charge for a teammate?
I understand when you have great players on losing teams who are tired of losing, struggling in the playoffs every year. You’re the lone star. I’ve been in that position.
To me, it’s like we’re already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can’t relax at all.
It’s funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they’re always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl.
Having been in the league with five different franchises, I know what the meaning of Monday Night Football is. It’s usually the best games and the greatest venue outside the playoffs.
