Playoffs Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Hockey, Unique, Player

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• My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.

  Dwight Gooden

  Baseball, Years, Two

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• 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

  Men, Years, Bills

  Rex Ryan's first press conference as coach of the Buffalo Bills, www.buffalobills.com. January 14, 2015.

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• I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.

  Don Baylor

  Player, World, Situation

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• The QB is going to be judged, fair or unfair, on success in the playoffs. You remember QBs who have won 3 or 4 Super Bowls

  Aaron Rodgers

  Remember, Super Bowl, Unfair

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• Toughest [lineup] I've faced. Hopefully, if it comes down to the playoffs, I can get my revenge.

  Mark Buehrle

  Revenge, Hopefully, Ifs

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• We are a terrible defensive team right now. We're not putting forth the maximum effort that we need to put forth, especially in our position. You'd think that we'd put forth that maximum effort to not only win the game, but to get a good rhythm to get into the playoffs.

  Jermaine O'Neal

  Team, Winning, Thinking

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• I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs.

  Coby Bell

  Basketball, Nba, Watches

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

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Baseball, Football, Guy

  "Q&A with Jon Bon Jovi". Interview with Jimmy Traina, www.si.com. October 26, 2009.

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• Because I always try so hard to win and had my troubles in Boston, I was suspended. At playoff time, it hurts not to be in the game with the boys. However, I want to do what is good for the people of Montreal and the team. So that no further harm will be done, I would like to ask everyone to get behind the team and to help the boys win from the Rangers and Detroit. I will take my punishment and come back next year to help the club and younger players to win the cup.

  Maurice Richard

  Hurt, Team, Winning

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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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• Getting to the playoffs is more important than winning an award.

  Corey Perry

  Winning, Awards, Important

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

  Monta Ellis

  Trying, Pressure

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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