Playoffs Quotes - Page 6

• The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country...You're forgotten by Thanksgiving.

  Tim McCarver

  Sports, Country, Mean

  "Oh, Baby, I Love It!". Book by Ray Robinson and Tim McCarver, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1987.

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• As you've progress further in the Playoffs, the ice usually gets a little softer. It's tough to keep it that cold. We could make it hard, but it would be about 4 degrees in the building. I'm sure the fans wouldn't appreciate that very much, wearing parkas in June.

  Chris Pronger

  June, Ice, Appreciate

  "Off-Day News: Leighton To Start Game 2, Carcillo Back In? Pronger Gets Feisty At Presser". Interview with Tim Panaccio, www.broadstreethockey.com. May 30, 2010.

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• You don't realize the atmosphere in the arena until you're down on the ice for real, especially during the playoffs. You come out of the gate, you hear the fans going crazy, you know you're at home and in for a good time. It's something special, that's for sure.

  Joe Thornton

  Crazy, Real, Home

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. September 29, 2006.

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• The model for an NHL without fighting is right there in front of us. The [playoffs are] the time of year that fans love best; when the best hockey is played... [The] enforcers don't play. Even mini-enforcers... remain on the bench. Teams and coaches can't afford anything stupid and unpredictable... With no one to fight back for them, players go harder into the corners, more determinedly to the front of the net. If they want to fire up the crowd and their teammates, they have to do it themselves. And in the playoffs, they do.

  Ken Dryden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Team

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• Any time you're playing a playoff-caliber team, it is always good to show well, because you don't know when you'll be seeing them again.

  John Lackey

  Team, Caliber, Shows

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

  Mariano Rivera

  Thinking, World, Seasons

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• Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times... we all had to deal with the Raiders.

  Joe Greene

  Eight, Cities, Kansas City

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• I don't have much of an attention span for TV - I nod off during the basketball playoffs - but when I watch 'Game of Thrones' on On Demand, I'm glued to the set. It's mystical and addictive. Tyrion Lannister, that's my man.

  Steve Harvey

  Basketball, Men, Games

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• At the same time, preparation is important to playoff success.

  Barry Trotz

  Preparation, Important

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• We're beating a lot of poor teams. So what? We won a lot of games last year, too. Will Horace and Bill still be playing at this level in the playoffs...Can Pip keep it up?

  Michael Jordan

  Team, Years, Games

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• Hed been to the playoffs before. I was asked last week what I thought this season has felt like for Coach Gibbs. I would think it must seem very familiar to a man with all those playoff wins. Hes a great coach who understands how to get his team to play.

  Mark Brunell

  Team, Winning, Men

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• We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and those close races created a major surge in attendance in the last month of the season.

  Lamar Hunt

  Team, Race, Balance

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• The best part of basketball, for those people on the inside, is the bus going to the airport after you've won a game on an opponent's floor. It's been a very tough battle. And preferably, in the playoffs. And that feeling that you have, together as a group, having gone to an opponent's floor and won a very good victory, is as about as high as you can get.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Games, Airports

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• I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston.

  Dennis Eckersley

  Sports, Team, Boston

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• 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.

  Patrick Ewing

  Doors, Firsts, Steps

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• 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.

  Stuart Appleby

  Sports, Dream, Winning

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Basketball, Care, I Don't Care

  InsideHoops Interview, www.insidehoops.com. February 14, 2004.

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• The most important thing is playoff sex.....er....um...I mean success

  Marc Crawford

  Sex, Mean, Important

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

  Byron Scott

  Believe, Winning, Championship

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• I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.

  Chili Davis

  Team, Games, Lost

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• I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed.

  Chris Webber

  Basketball, Years, League

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• We had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth and I think if that's not enough motivation I don't think you should be playing this game.

  Tina Thompson

  Motivational, Opportunity, Thinking

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• 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.

  Derek Fisher

  People, Giving, Give Me

  "Derek Fisher’s post-Game 3 interview". Interview with Kevin Ding, www.ocregister.com. June 8, 2010.

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• Coach [Pat] Riley's record speaks for itself. What makes him so special is he is a coach clearly concerned about winning. His whole thinking when he wakes up every day is how can I make this team [ New York Knicks] more focused and going through 82 games during the regular season and the playoffs.

  John Starks

  New York, Team, Winning

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• At halftime [of Game 7], one of our oldest guys on the team, James Jones, came to me, and he's like, "Man, it's time for you to do something. You've been sleeping the whole playoffs, the whole final series." First couple of shots I got coming out, I was like, "You know what, I'm gonna shoot it." Fortunately they fell, and we started making our way back.

  J. R. Smith

  Couple, Team, Sleep

  Source: espn.go.com

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