94 Playoff Quotes
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Famous Playoff Quotes
This is why you play - to get an opportunity to play in the playoffs. — Derek Jeter
I don't just think regular season. I think playoffs. World Series. That's how I think. — Mariano Rivera
That's what you work all season for, to get into the playoff games, and you don't want to blow it. — Ray Nitschke
I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it's bittersweet. — Allen Iverson
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
I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May. — Stephen Curry
You're all playin' for second place. — Larry Bird
I've got a Championship game to play and I'm excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. — Les Miles
Playing a final is great, but it’s winning it that counts. — Antoine Griezmann
Play hard, play smart, play together, have fun. — Morgan Wootten
You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. — Jeanette Winter
The game honors toughness — Brad Stevens
Win, lose, or tie, you're gonna play like champions! — Herb Brooks
If it's the ultimate game, how come they're playing it again next year? — Duane Thomas
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. — Pat Riley
Short Playoff Quotes
- The playoffs are the playoffs. You just play who is put in front of you. — Steve Nash
- In the playoffs, it is do or die. You win or you go home. As a competitor, you love it. — Ben Roethlisberger
- Playoff basketball ... you've got to treat every possession like it's your last. — Paul Pierce
- I lost control of myself a couple times in the playoffs. I have to keep cooler in the future. — Dirk Nowitzki
- Whatever happened in the regular season seems to not matter in the playoffs. — Carl Crawford
- When it comes to playoff time, I pull the energy and the motivation. — Pau Gasol
- People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs. — Jaromir Jagr
- You have to pay attention to details to have success in the playoffs. You can't take anyone lightly. — Nicklas Lidstrom
- The playoffs is all about showing heart and playing together. — Dirk Nowitzki
- Good teams make the playoffs, hot teams win the playoffs. — Derek Jeter
Nba Playoff Quotes
My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn't really focused on being a star player on a team. I just wanted to make it to the NBA. I've been blessed for the opportunities to be in the Finals, been in the playoffs ever since I've been in the NBA. — James Harden
You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches — Red Auerbach
I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team. When it's really close, usually one team pulls together, and the other team comes apart. — Doc Rivers
It would be easier if I didn't even make the playoffs, it would hurt less. But then I start thinking about how much fun it is. — LeBron James
But then I lock back in and I start thinking about how fun it is to compete during the playoffs and the first round, the second round, and Eastern Conference Finals. If I'm lucky enough to get here again, it will be fun to do it. — LeBron James
Tim Duncan's foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year's playoffs. That's not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball. — Bill Walton
When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1,037 times in 20 years. — Red Auerbach
I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs. — Coby Bell
Hockey Playoff Quotes
The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique. — Saku Koivu
By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series. — Steve Rushin
I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie. — Chris Osgood
In the playoffs will beats skill. — Kevin Constantine
We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them.They have to understand that it's totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts. — Jaromir Jagr
I knew nothing about hockey when I came to Chicago and then became the biggest fan - went to every playoff game. — Christian Madsen
Playoff Games Quotes
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. — Drew Bledsoe
I played in Joe Louis in a playoff game. I played there when the roof caved in for half a season. The facility is great for basketball because it goes straight up, so you feel like the fans are on top of you. — Bill Laimbeer
The goal every year is to win the Super Bowl, not just to get to the playoffs, not just to win a few games. — Calvin Johnson
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. — Paul Allen
Experience is everything. It means so much because it enabled me to learn the game even faster. Playing in the playoffs is the best basketball in the world, and if you can learn under that pressure, succeed under that pressure, it gives you more confidence the next year. — Tony Parker
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
In this millennium that we live in, the 'Hack-a-Shaq'has proven not to work. It might work a couple games every now and then, but when it comes to the playoffs or a championship series, it doesn't work - not at all. — Shaquille O'Neal
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
When people come up to me and say, "I was at your Game 7 in the playoffs in Toronto," or, "I saw your first goal in the NHL," that triggers memories. But I don't sit around my kitchen table and tell my kids, "You know, one year I got 92 goals." — Wayne Gretzky
Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we're simultaneously both cowardly and arrogant. We don't know the answers, so we assume they must not exist. — Chuck Klosterman
People Writing About Playoff
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Derek Jeter |
80 | 799 |
 Dirk Nowitzki |
23 | 185 |
 Mariano Rivera |
43 | 173 |
 Allen Iverson |
76 | 1228 |
 Stephen Curry |
83 | 3349 |
 Larry Bird |
56 | 1274 |
More Playoff Quotes
I want my team to be more detached from the wins and losses and be more focused on doing the little things well. When you focus on getting the win, it can suffocate you, especially during the playoffs when the pressure gets thick. — Sue Enquist
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
A-Rod wants to be like Babe Ruth. And people don't realize this, he's a lot like Babe Ruth. Before the playoffs a couple of years ago, A-Rod went to the hospital and promised a dying kid he'd ground out to second for him. — Artie Lange
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. — Brian Jordan
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. — Al Michaels
I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95. — Dennis Rodman
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. — John Starks
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
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
Westbrook: 10 triple-doubles and carrying that team, injury-prone, into the playoffs. LeBron being the best player in the world. But I think right now I would go with James Harden because of what he's done. He's stepped up his game defensively. He's not a great defender but he's competing on the defensive end. — Mark Jackson
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
Everybody wants to play in the playoffs. You don't know how good the good times were until you hit the bad times. But sometimes success is just around the corner. — Trevor Linden
I know it’s been 15 years since the Bills made the playoffs. Well get ready, man, we’re going. We are going. — Rex Ryan
You could have a season where you hit .330 and did all these great things, but nothing ever materialized from it and you went home October One. Or you could hit .260 and have key hits and key plays on defense that help your team get to the playoffs and win the World Series. — Andre Ethier
No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot. — Orel Hershiser
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. — Steve Mariucci
It's the playoffs. You find a way to get through. — Steve Finley
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
Making the playoffs three consecutive seasons is a great accomplishment. — Pau Gasol
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