Ryne Sandberg Quotes

I want to be in the playoffs every year.

I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.

It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.

I played in three countries. I played in two World Series. But I never found anything to match the joy and the laughter those years with the Eagles brought me. The city and county loved us.

Every year you go in and you obviously want to win a World Series, at least make the playoffs.

At the end of the day, the most important goal is to get to the World Series and to win the World Series.

I'd rather be in a good position in the playoffs and holding up a World Series trophy than holding up an MVP trophy.

I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.

My idea of heaven is a pennant winner.

The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.

When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.

That's what we all play for, is to play in the postseason.

To play meaningful games and try and win a division, a pennant, a World Series, that's what it's all about. That's the thing I'm most proud of.

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

I really love Philadelphia and all of the fans, my teammates, the front office, the organization, everybody. I know I'm going to miss them. I really appreciate everything we did together. On the other side, I am happy because I have a chance to go to the playoffs. Another opportunity, maybe, to go to the World Series.

Watching guys win the World Series looks like a lot of fun. I'd kind of like to do that.

You know that in the playoffs, everyone starts from zero. No matter what team you have to face, if you want to make it to the World Series, you have to get through two rounds against very good teams that are going to be hot.

At the end of the day, that's why we're playing the games, for the postseason.

Only one champion stands at the end of the year, so just making the playoffs isn't enough.

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

That's everyone's motivation: to get to the playoffs and win the World Series.

It's all about the playoffs for me. I don't care about the regular season.

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

When you taste winning the World Series, you want to do that every year.

I think the most important thing is that World Series.