We don't just say this every spring training - 'Playoffs, World Series.' You've got to do it.

- Giancarlo Stanton

The playoffs are the playoffs. You just play who is put in front of you.

- Steve Nash

When I was playing, there were only eight teams in each league, and you didn't have any playoffs.

- Red Schoendienst

You can technically lose money during the playoffs if you don't raise your ticket prices.

- Rocky Wirtz

The playoffs, everybody gets a little frustrated. You lose, your season's over.

- Richard Sherman

To me, it's like we're already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can't relax at all.

- Peter Bondra

None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.

- Pedro Martinez

I don't just think regular season. I think playoffs. World Series. That's how I think.

- Mariano Rivera

At the end of the day, I've played six years, haven't made the playoffs yet, that burns me and hurts my heart, so I really want to be playing.

- Kevin Love

People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.

- Jaromir Jagr

I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it's bittersweet.

- Allen Iverson

War of attrition, war of wills. That's what the Stanley Cup playoffs are - more intense, more physical and more prolonged than the playoffs of any other sport.

- George Vecsey

I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.

- Eddie Cahill

The deeper you get into the playoffs, obviously the better the opponent is. Which means they'll be better defensively, they'll rebound better, they don't turn the ball over.

- Eric Snow

My favorite event each year is the Yankees-Red Sox series. Love seeing passions run hot among the fans, especially when both teams are in the running for the playoffs.

- Elizabeth Banks

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

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

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

- Dennis Rodman

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

- Coby Bell

I played in the playoffs with teams that were known for flopping and you do not get respect.

- Chris Webber