Postseason Performance Quotes

I don't care much about my personal record. I just want to be able to pitch in the playoffs.

I can't imagine Joe DiMaggio was a better all-around player than Dale Murphy.

Whatever happened in the regular season seems to not matter in the playoffs.

I'm not a guy that believes you've got to have a lot of experience to have success in the playoffs.

When you're 0-2 in the Super Bowl, they say unkind things about you. They say, 'He can't win the big one.' And that's the worst thing that can be said about you.

I'm a big believer that if you can have success in the playoffs, when it means the most and when the game is at its highest pace, it always carries into the next year and it gives a player confidence.

When you think about Peyton Manning, you think about numbers. When you think about Tom Brady, you think about championships

What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

I think it's very, very tough to compare postseason and in-season, just for the simple fact that there's the heightened levels of energy on both sides of the ball.

If we go to the conference finals and people say we had a bad season, I'll take that.

I think the thing with our team is during the postseason, our best games that we've played during the postseason, we strung at-bats together. It's not necessarily going up there trying to hit a home run, but it's trying to put up a good at-bat for the next guy.

You have to be able to win on the road if you want to win in the playoffs.

When it comes to playoff time, I pull the energy and the motivation.

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.

You can't compare regular season to postseason.

After going through the playoffs, you definitely get a sense for how important it is to go through it at least once before you win.