Playoffs Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Mike Ditka

  Winning, Past, Goal

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• What I meant by that is, any time you have adversity, now you've got a chance to see all of these guys play every game the rest of the way like it's a playoff game. What you want guys to do when there's adversity is to play harder and play better, and that's when you see what kind of guys you have in your locker room.

  Mike Shanahan

  Adversity, Games, Play

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• It's the playoffs. You find a way to get through.

  Steve Finley

  Way

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• The deeper you get into the playoffs, obviously the better the opponent is. Which means they'll be better defensively, they'll rebound better, they don't turn the ball over.

  Eric Snow

  Mean, Balls, Opponents

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• I'm going to make the playoffs. You can believe that. To never play in the playoffs, that will not be my legacy.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Believe, Play, Nfl

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

  Orel Hershiser

  Sports, Special People, Noble

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• Making the playoffs three consecutive seasons is a great accomplishment.

  Pau Gasol

  Accomplishment, Three, Consecutive

  "'I've Never, Ever Liked Elvis': an Interview with Laker Pau Gasol". Interview with Dan Gurle, bleacherreport.com. May 8, 2008.

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• I think your goal is to win every single game you play. ... I'm not a guy that just puts a number on it and says we're going to do this, or makes a bravado statement like, "We're going to the playoffs and I guarantee it." I'm not a guy that talks about what we're going to do. I'm just, "Let's do it." And what it is is, we need to work extremely hard.

  Chip Kelly

  Winning, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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

  Ray Nitschke

  Blow, Games, Want

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• The fact that we're in the playoffs doesn't mean anything to us, to be honest with you. Hopefully, we can accomplish our goal of going into the playoffs on a winning note.

  Michael Strahan

  Sports, Mean, Winning

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• I lost control of myself a couple times in the playoffs. I have to keep cooler in the future.

  Dirk Nowitzki

  Couple, Lost

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• I could play through anything. But just thinking about I have kids, longevity, I probably would have made more of a conscious effort not to hit the floor, but at the end of the day in the playoffs, you can't play that way. You just have to play and give it your all.

  Rajon Rondo

  Kids, Thinking, Play

  "Rajon Rondo: 'I have nothing but love' for Mavericks". Interview with Tim MacMahon, www.espn.com. January 5, 2016.

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• What I've learned so far from researching is that to win the Stanley Cup, you have to make the playoffs.

  Ted Leonsis

  Work, Winning, Cups

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• Whether it's in the playoffs or not, you have to keep proving yourself.

  Marc Bulger

  Proving Yourself, Prove

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• Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.

  John Facenda

  Summer, Football, War

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• It’s not a playoff game, it’s like the Super Bowl. … This is going to be a blood bath out there. I know they’re going to be ready to play. This is going to be a physical game. I’m sure that I’m going to be ready and I know my boys are going to be ready to back it up.

  Jason Pierre-Paul

  Boys, Blood, Games

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• 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.

  LeBron James

  Team, Stupid, Mean

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• Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure.

  Pete Rose

  Fun, Games, Done

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• You have been doing something that has brought you success, and you are in the playoffs because you have been doing some thing right.

  Jennie Finch

  Has Beens

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• What I've talked about the entire series and throughout this playoffs is about intensity and effort, desire and will of our players.

  Bill Laimbeer

  Basketball, Player, Effort

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

  Darcy Tucker

  Heart, Play, Like You

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• 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.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Stars, Games

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• I don't just want to play in the playoffs. I want to win the World Series.

  Robinson Cano

  Winning, Play, World

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• 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 if there was any chance that it was possible to come back that I was ready and that I'd done everything I could to be ready. It's frustrating, disappointing. But can't really control any of that.

  Sidney Crosby

  Sports, Play, Expectations

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• We've played with a lot of confidence and that's been the key so far. Hopefully, we can take more confidence into the playoffs.

  Teemu Selanne

  Confidence, Hockey, Keys

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