You always want to feel better but I’m good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You’ve got to lay it on the line.
We want to play in the playoffs as a team.
Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld – they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
We know how hard it is to get to the playoffs in general, and then to get to the NFC Championship Game. You just never know if you’ll have the opportunity again, so you really want to make the most of it.
I’m not a guy that believes you’ve got to have a lot of experience to have success in the playoffs.
The season is a beast within itself. It’s not the quickest race; it’s a marathon. In the playoffs – if you’re fortunate enough to make the playoffs – that’s more like a dash. You have to concentrate on one opponent. When they’re done, you have to concentrate on another one.
I was born and raised in Laval and my first memory of the Canadiens was their rivalry with the Nordiques and that series in the 1993 playoffs. I was only in grade school but I remember everyone going crazy about the Canadiens that year.
If you’re going to advance as a referee and make that $75,000 to $100,000 a year in the playoffs, you’re going to give the league what they want. Because they are grading you.
You get a taste of playing in the playoffs and what that’s like, and it’s a completely different world. You get a taste in those meaningful games. You get that taste, and you can’t get it out. You want more.
The pressure of the World Series and the playoffs, it gets to you. But I hope I feel like that every year. Because hopefully we’re playing into November every year.
It’s the playoffs. Teams are gonna go on runs.
I’m trying to go to the playoffs. That’s my goal. Everything else is going to fall in place.
Whenever I’m out on the basketball court, I lace up and just hoop. Whether it’s in summertime, at practice, in the games, playoffs, every time I step out on the basketball court, I approach it the same way.
I think being able to make the playoffs alone is an outstanding accomplishment alone and something not a lot of people get to experience in their careers.
It’s easy to go somewhere where everything already is set up and they’ve been to the playoffs four, five years in a row. I’ve been on those teams. Those are great experiences.
In the playoffs, all eyes are on you.
I feel like any team I’m on, I can help take that team to the playoffs.
Making the playoffs three consecutive seasons is a great accomplishment.
It’s no secret that in the NFL playoffs, the pressure’s on. The guys who can rise above that pressure and play mistake-free when it counts the most build legends for themselves: Think Joe Montana, Tom Brady, or Adam Vinatieri.
You don’t get a chance to go to the playoffs and World Series very often, but to be able to experience it with the people you love most in the world is really fun.
One of the best things is to be able to go to the playoffs and win a championship. After you taste the first one, you want to go back every year.
When I was playing, there were only eight teams in each league, and you didn’t have any playoffs.
If you’re not a Grizz fan, you might not even know what we’re up to until playoffs come around. We get forgotten and sometimes slighted.
