NFL Playoffs Quotes

Normally the teams that are in the NFC and AFC championship games are the teams that are going to be right there in the forefront as the season begins.

I'm looking forward to making a Super Bowl run in Atlanta every year.

I'm going to the Super Bowl again.

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.

Winning the NFC championship affords you a chance at the next opportunity.

October, that's when they pay off for playing ball.

Eli Manning is the one man I just don't want to see in the playoffs. He is a flatliner.

I'm not going to be happy until Cleveland wins a Super Bowl.

I've always joked about Joe Montana not appreciating his Super Bowls nearly as much as I do because he never lost one. We lost three before we got one.

In 1999, I got fired as coach of New England. In three years in New England, we actually did better than most people think. We were 27-21, won the AFC division title, went to the playoffs twice.

What the Jets did with Mark Sanchez, they took a rookie quarterback and went pretty far with him.

I think everyone's goal at the beginning of the year is to get to this time, to get an opportunity to play in the Super Bowl.

I want to finish my career as a Dolphin and win a championship here. That's what they brought me here for and that's what I came to do.

Other sports culminate at different times of the year, but the NFL is in the fourth quarter - that's where the money is.

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.

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.

I think of guys like Troy Polamalu. These are guys who didn't see much action in the regular season, but when it came postseason time, they made their plays. That's ultimately how they got their names. Ed Reed. Troy Polamalu. Ty Law. Asante Samuel.

I know it’s been 15 years since the Bills made the playoffs. Well get ready, man, we’re going. We are going.