Postseason Play Quotes

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

I have never played a game for the national title. Our goals always have been to win the Big Ten title and the Rose Bowl. If we do that, then we consider it a successful season.

Winning the Rookie of the Year would be nice but making the playoffs would be even nicer for me.

I would say from top to bottom, the SEC is strongest. Every now and then, another conference is going to have a great number one team. But week in and week out, having to play a really tough schedule that's preparing you for the post­season, there's no better conference than the SEC.

Getting to say you're going to the World Series is a pretty special thing.

You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.

If we can lose 12 games every year and go to the Final Four every year, I'll take it. I'd rather do that than win 30 and not go to the Final Four.

During my 11-year coaching tenure, Saint Joseph's won or tied for the Big Five championship seven times, went to 10 postseason tournaments - including seven NCAA appearances - and reached the Final Four in 1961.

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.

Who knows how many times I'm going to get to go to the World Series? I know more than anybody how hard it is to get there.

The bowl games are only supposed to be a fun reward.

I didn't know anybody who went to Rangers games. Then, when they started winning and going to World Series, everybody's wearing Rangers hats.

Winning the World Series is really all that we play this game for.

I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.

It's so hard to win a World Series.

That's what it's all about - postseason baseball.

I'm happy for my kids getting postseason opportunities, for both of them playing in the Super Bowl back to back. I never would have envisioned anything like that.

Hard fouls are a part of playoff basketball, and I think that's how basketball should be. I don't take those fouls personally.

As far as the bowl games, I don't think the players really play for that. Not at USC.

It's a big deal to get to the NCAA Tournament.

It is hard to imagine the World Series being held in the sweet hazy sunshine of late September rather than the sour night air of late October, but that is precisely what has transpired in baseball over the past 50 years, a deterioration from light to darkness.

The more playoff games and Super Bowls and things of that nature that you're in obviously is going to build your portfolio and raise your visibility.