Playoff Run Quotes

I'm all for players extending their careers, and I'm all for trying to be as healthy as possible for the playoff run.

The most important thing is win enough games to get into the playoffs. Then, once you get into the playoffs, win.

Everybody's goal in the NBA is to win a Championship - that's the ultimate.

It would have been great to have had 10 victories and been in the playoffs and have gone all the way and then said, 'Goodbye,' but it didn't work out that way.

When you get into the Finals, I don't think anybody is completely healthy.

I want to be in the playoffs every year.

Winning the Super Bowl is the No. 1 priority.

You just want the highs to start once the playoffs start.

In the regular season you always say, 'Take it one game at a time.' But the playoffs, they kind of make you do that.

I want to help my team get to the playoffs, win, and run wild.

The playoffs is ‑ I think I took it for granted a little bit. My first two years I kind of just thought that always happened, I guess.

The season is a beast within itself. It's not the quickest race; it's a marathon. In the playoffs - if you're fortunate enough to make the playoffs - that's more like a dash. You have to concentrate on one opponent. When they're done, you have to concentrate on another one.

In New Jersey, we won in '95, but after that for four years we never had a sniff at it. The next thing you know we went on a run of three Stanley Cup Finals in four years in 2000, 2001 and 2003.

I really don't know what it takes to make it to the playoffs.

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

It's huge. You win the first game of the series, you want to win the series.

I loved the three years I had in Cleveland, especially that playoff run with Timmy Couch and Kelly Holcomb. And obviously those great years in Pittsburgh.

When you win the Cup, you need everything to line up. You need to get lucky, you need guys to stay healthy, you need guys to play well at the right time.

To win a World Series, the whole team has to be hot, everything has to go your way.

As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with a touchdown pass. The chances of that happening, by the looks of most of the Super Bowls, is a very rare chance. Fortunately for me, I had an opportunity.

I would like to be in the playoffs. I would hope that there is some opportunity to go and play in the playoffs. Those are the best games, the most fun for sure, and you have a chance to win.

We had some great years in Portland. We went to the finals twice. We won 63 games one year. You can't tell me those weren't championship teams.

Yeah, once you get a taste of the playoffs - I couldn't imagine not making it back to the playoffs. Give credit to LeBron and those guys who do it so many consecutive years.

I get excited for the regular season also, but it's just added excitement when the playoffs start.

I'm pretty sure everybody in the NBA wants to make the playoffs. Every player, every coach, every organization wants to make the playoffs.