Playoffs Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Basketball, Mean, Years

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 11, 2006.

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• What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

  Jack Adams

  Baseball, Pitching, Cups

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• 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

  Memories, Kids, Years

  "Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life". Interview with Jonathon Gatehouse, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• I'm a proponent of a playoff so everybody can calm down.

  Joe Buck

  Calm, Calm Down

  Source: thebiglead.com

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

  Barry Trotz

  Preparation, Important

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• People really don't care, in some ways, that you have a family. With a high profile job like I have, they just want you to win basketball games. You can do that and still keep your family together. I try the best I can to be at the basketball practices or tennis practices or recitals. In my first year at Dallas my (then 11-year old) son Avery Jr., said, "You know daddy, you're still the best coach in the NBA." I was like, "But I haven't won a playoff game yet." And he said, "That's okay. You're still my daddy." That makes you feel good.

  Avery Johnson

  Basketball, Jobs, Son

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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