Top 70 Playoff Quotes

I’m not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can’t afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

Every game is a playoff game.

I remember my second year, in the playoff game in Dallas, I remember every play that happened. I remembered giving up a back-shoulder fade in the end zone, scoring.

Less is always more in a playoff game.

I just felt like if I just kept making birdie – I think the 18th hole is a weird hole as a playoff, especially when you’re trying to beat daylight.

That’s playoff basketball. Can you not get too happy after a win? Can you understand how determined the team is going to be after a loss and bring the energy you need to bring?

I’m not a huge college football fan. The reason I’m not is because there’s not a playoff.

When it comes down to playoff basketball, it’s attention to detail.

This is definitely a playoff team. There’s no question about that. It’s just a matter of how much we want it.

I think we have played like a playoff team for some time. We can still do better. The key thing right now is to look forward, not behind you.

We played in a number of these neutral site games, I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.

To come out and win a playoff game, that’s just amazing.

Your superstars are going to do what they do, but most teams win playoff games by what role players step up. That usually determines how far you’re going to go and how much you’re going to win.

For a football fan, there might be nothing better than watching a playoff game at Lambeau Field – and seeing it decided, dramatically, in overtime.

Any competitor would be frustrated in that moment… but it certainly made sense what Coach Kubiak did for the playoff run. I got replaced by Peyton Manning… I think we all know who is going to play in the game.

When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.

I had to do something special coming in. I didn’t do it, so I had to do it in the playoff. Winning the Mercedes is awesome. Winning three times is a dream come true.

Every playoff game is kind of like its own movie.

Vijay Singh won a playoff in 2004 at Whistling Straits after a final-round 76, which was the highest last round by the winner of any major since 1938, when Reg Whitcombe won the British Open with a 78 in a storm that blew down the exhibition tent at Sandwich.

Playoff basketball isn’t about who scores, stats or putting numbers up on the board. It’s just about winning at the end of the day. When you play a game in a series, it becomes chess. It becomes who can outsmart the other team.

On our way to the Super Bowl XV Championship, the Oakland Raiders played a frigid 1981 AFC playoff game in Cleveland, in which the temperatures plunged to -35 degrees. I remember looking up in the stands to see a dedicated Cleveland Brown fan celebrating topless.

I’ve been blessed with doing something I love and then at the same time, do introductions at World Series, Stanley Cup championships, NFL playoff games and a lot of commercials. No regrets at all.

If you go to a team that’s fighting for a playoff spot, you just want to fit in. That’s all you want to do. Go in with an open mind and let yourself take it in.

I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings – those guys won – guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there’s a lot that they can teach the guys.

When you logically think about it, what the BCS people have done, which obviously we’re all part of it, I think it was great for a while. I think it took an imperfect system and did the best you can without a playoff.

Whenever we’re all getting ready for a playoff game, you know how serious those games are, and you try to motivate your guys. There’s a lot of emotion that goes into those games, and when I play, it’s all about winning, and it’s all about doing whatever it takes to fire guys up and to get that emotion running.

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

I’m a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.

Obviously I bet on games I officiated. I passed on information based on the meetings that the referees were having, and based on what the league office wanted us to call in playoff games. With that being said, I was able to win at a high percentage when we were betting on NBA games.

I have done a lot of NFL games, a season-opening home games, playoff games, championship games, and of course Stanley Cup games, World Series, NBA championship games. But I have never done a Superbowl. It’s probably the only major sporting event I’ve never done and I would like to.

Playoff hockey is the best way to market your team. It’s the best way to grow your fan base and give hope to your players and for them to develop.

You’ve got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you’re involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life.

After a basketball game, you’re gonna be physically tired, but more mentally. Playoff time comes around, you have it all in your head.

If you can get your team to that point of being able to be in that playoff race mindset every week, that’s something that most teams can’t do.

Any time you go into the playoff game everyone’s adrenaline is high and tensions are going, stuff like that.

I mean, that’s playoff hockey. You’re not going to dominate every game, you’re not going to score every goal.

It’s just like high school. If you’re a freshman or a sophomore, it’s hard to tell the seniors who’ve been through two, three, playoff games what to do.

When you inherit a franchise that won one playoff game in the last 10 years, you’ve inherited a troubled franchise.

I think when they put together this College Football Playoff, I think you… do you play a light schedule and put everything into your conference championship? That’s not what I’m feeling across the country. They want to make every game important, which they have.

Even if it’s just two shots, I just want to see the ball go in the hole. That gives me the confidence to know I can make shots when I’m called upon in a playoff type of situation.

The year we went to our first Super Bowl in 1992, we were the youngest team in football. We played in the Super Bowl against a team that had a wealth of playoff experience and Super Bowl experience, and we dominated that football game.

You know in a playoff atmosphere anything can happen.

That’s the reason why you work so hard all year long, to put yourself in a playoff situation.

The bench is really important in the NBA because if you have a good bench, then you can make that playoff push even harder.

When you watch Chris Paul on the playoff stage, you often sense he is fighting two battles, one against his nature and one against his opponent.

I’m not superstitious about anything in my life – except for playoff hockey. I get really kind of sketchy and weird about it. I don’t like talking about it. I don’t like making predictions.

I loved the three years I had in Cleveland, especially that playoff run with Timmy Couch and Kelly Holcomb. And obviously those great years in Pittsburgh.

I’m all for players extending their careers, and I’m all for trying to be as healthy as possible for the playoff run.

When I first got drafted, I’ve really grown. Coming in, I was kind of nervous but honestly I’ve been really blessed going to two playoff series, one against Miami and the next year against Chicago and the Celtics. I’ve progressed easier.

There’s a lot of disappointment when you lose a playoff game.

I think it should be hard to get into the playoff. It really should.

If we think a playoff spot’s not in the cards, there will be no concern for appearances or cosmetics whatsoever. We’ll continue to address our future and trade off some pieces that would keep us respectable.

I just love playoff basketball.

And now we’re in a world where players are skipping some of these bowl games, people are talking about the only bowl games that matter are the playoff, and I just happen to disagree with that wholeheartedly.

The more playoff games and Super Bowls and things of that nature that you’re in obviously is going to build your portfolio and raise your visibility.

Everything we talk about is about beating the Packers, the Bears and the Vikings. Obviously there are other teams in the league, but if you can dominate and be on top of your division you are always in the playoff hunt. It’s time for us to win that thing.

When I was drafted in Cleveland, I wanted to turn this team back into a perennial playoff contender and to win the Super Bowl.

Now you’ve been in the playoffs once, you know what it tastes like, you know what it feels like. You know, going through the season when Coach is preaching physicality, how hard you gotta play, how you gotta take care of the ball, why he’s saying that. Because all that comes into play in playoff basketball.