Playoffs Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Basketball, Thinking, Years

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• I'm a firm believer that the wild-card teams, because they're grinding it out until the final days, have a tremendous amount of excitement. That excitement carries over into the playoffs and really helps.

  Tim Salmon

  Team, Finals, Cards

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• Andrew Luck, if he gets to his first Super Bowl and he wins that Super Bowl, that means he won on the road every game except for that first playoff game. He went and beat Peyton Manning…Then that means he went and beat Tom Brady…Then he would either have to beat Aaron Rodgers or the Seattle Seahawks. That’s a pretty tough hill to climb. If he does that, he’s just solidified himself in that conversation as an elite quarterback.

  Charles Woodson

  Mean, Winning, Games

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• We're just a fragile team right now. It seems like when we have a little bit of adversity, when something goes wrong, you can feel it on the bench, it kind of sinks. Unless we get a goal or something really positive happens, it's tough. I think falling out of the playoff race takes the wind out of your sails for sure.

  Wes Walz

  Team, Fall, Adversity

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• I'm not a guy that believes you've got to have a lot of experience to have success in the playoffs.

  Phil Simms

  Sports, Believe, Guy

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• It was an exciting time for me personally because the number of times I've been to the playoffs, that was the opportunity to obtain the first ring. That was special, that's for sure.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Opportunity, Numbers

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• 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

  Hockey, Winning, Years

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• 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

  Basketball, Couple, Games

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• 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

  Winning, Years, Games

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• 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

  Team, Home, Winning

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• Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.

  Michael Jordan

  Running, Winning, Mirrors

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• Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We don’t know the answers, so we assume they must not exist. But they do exist. They are unclear and/or unfathomable, but they’re out there. And—perhaps surprisingly—the only way to find those answers is to study NBA playoff games that happened twenty years ago. For all practical purposes, the voice of Brent Musburger was the pen of Ayn Rand.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Believe, Years, Nba

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Hockey, Nhl, Games

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• After referees negated a line change that led to Tampa Bay"s winning goal in the Stanley Cup Playoffs: After all these years in the league, am I that stupid that I would put four forwards and one defenseman in a 3-3 tie, in the third period? I think everybody that knows me here knows I"m not that stupid. I might be halfway stupid, but not that stupid.

  Pat Burns

  Stupid, Hockey, Winning

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• Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification and enthusiasm and, in time, attention as more and more closing rallies and crucial putts and late field goals and final playoffs and sudden deaths and world records and world championships unreel themselves ceaselessly before our half-lidded eyes.

  Roger Angell

  Sports, Eye, Goal

  Roger Angell (2013). “The Summer Game”, p.348, Open Road Media

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• "I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Cancer, Healing

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• It's a reality here. We're a team that at this time of the season, with teams trying to get to the playoffs, it's going to be difficult to win.

  Nate McMillan

  Team, Winning, Reality

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• 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

  Basketball, Winning, Player

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• 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

  Basketball, Team, Thinking

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• I think I can play in the big leagues 10 or 15 years. But more important to me is winning-win, make the playoffs.

  Carlos Beltran

  Winning, Thinking, Years

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• I'm not trying to put any more pressure on me because it's the playoffs.

  Monta Ellis

  Trying, Pressure

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• If you throw 200 innings or more, you have to be in shape. If you work on your diet and strength, it will help you be in perfect shape for the playoffs.

  Carlos Zambrano

  Perfect, Shapes, Helping

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• I'd rather have a 16, as in Stanley Cup playoff wins.

  Lindy Ruff

  Winning, Cups, Stanley Cup

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• You’ll never have a 16-team playoff in college football. The most that could happen would be four teams in the next century. But after that, I’m dead, so who cares?

  Beano Cook

  Football, Team, College

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• This is a good group of young guys that's eager to play. When I was coming up with the (Minnesota) Twins, they called us a Triple-A team. But then we made the playoffs. That's the direction we're headed.

  Corey Koskie

  Team, Play, Guy

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