Shawn Kemp Quotes

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 fact that we're in the playoffs doesn't mean anything to us, to be honest with you. Hopefully, we can accomplish our goal of going into the playoffs on a winning note.

Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment.

Making the playoffs is hard to come by, so if you can help contribute to your team's success it's always a successful time.

I think being able to make the playoffs alone is an outstanding accomplishment alone and something not a lot of people get to experience in their careers.

A good season for me is going to the playoffs and making a run for the Super Bowl and having a good record.

If you just look at the numbers, you pretty much have to get 10 wins to get into the playoffs, sometimes more than that.

The difference between an 8-8 team and a team that goes 12-4 is not that much, and I think we realize that.

I just want to win as a team, take road games, play some of the top teams and beat them to make the playoffs.

I have been part of very successful City teams, but it was never at the end of a dominant season that we were able to win a title.

The pressure of the World Series and the playoffs, it gets to you. But I hope I feel like that every year. Because hopefully we're playing into November every year.

Whenever you get traded out and you are playing for a winning team, it's always good.

The thing I really want to do is make the All-Star team and have an All-Star season. If I do that, then I know my team is going to be winning.

Even teams that win 110 games have stretches when they don't play well.

Time flies really quickly. It feels like only a few months ago that I was traded over here and started my career as a Cub in 2013.

I was playing 60, 70 matches a year in college. In the pros, unless you're winning, you're not playing that many.

Expectation builds the one thing you must have when you get to a new stadium when it's built, which is a winning team.

It is easy to understand when Everton performed better it was when they had stability.

We know how hard it is to make the World Series; to do it two years in a row is really special. I know how lucky I am to be a part of it two years in a row.

We want to be in playoffs, we want to fight for a title.

You're playing football for a living. There aren't many things better than that.

I think playoff experience matters for sure.

People outside the organization or outside of football, they don't know how hard it is to win in this league, such a high-caliber athletes and elite group of people competing each week.

You don't want to play one year in the Champions' League and go out. You don't then establish yourself as a big club.

You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.