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One thing you know about playoff competition is this: If you have a hot quarterback and your defense can take the ball away, you don't need to have a dominant defense anymore.
Herm Edwards /
Defense
Dominant
Quarterback
Playoff
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That's playoff basketball. Can you not get too happy after a win? Can you understand how determined the team is going to be after a loss and bring the energy you need to bring?
Nick Nurse /
Determined
Playoff
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Even if it's just two shots, I just want to see the ball go in the hole. That gives me the confidence to know I can make shots when I'm called upon in a playoff type of situation.
Shaun Livingston /
Hole
Playoff
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I'm not superstitious about anything in my life - except for playoff hockey. I get really kind of sketchy and weird about it. I don't like talking about it. I don't like making predictions.
Cm Punk / Professional Wrestler
Hockey
Predictions
Life Weird My Life
Playoff
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Your superstars are going to do what they do, but most teams win playoff games by what role players step up. That usually determines how far you're going to go and how much you're going to win.
Danny Green /
Determines
How Far
Playoff
Superstars
Teams
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I've been blessed with doing something I love and then at the same time, do introductions at World Series, Stanley Cup championships, NFL playoff games and a lot of commercials. No regrets at all.
Michael Buffer / Announcer
Nfl
No Regrets
Stanley
Stanley Cup
World Series
Love Time World
Championships
Commercials
Regrets
Playoff
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My durability is just something I took a lot of pride in, that I was able to play 70 games over and over and over and they add up to 1,200-and-something games, plus the playoff games, plus whatever.
Martin Brodeur / Ice Hockey Player
Add
Games
Plus
Pride
Just Something
Playoff
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There's going to be different kinds of challenges on a yearly basis. You're going to have to overcome injuries, or you overcome a playoff loss or what have you. So there's always challenges in this business.
Jeff Fisher / American Football Player
Different Kinds
Loss
Overcome
Basis
Be Different
Injuries
Playoff
Yearly
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And now we're in a world where players are skipping some of these bowl games, people are talking about the only bowl games that matter are the playoff, and I just happen to disagree with that wholeheartedly.
Kirk Herbstreit /
Disagree
Wholeheartedly
Where World People
World People Matter
Bowl
Playoff
Skipping
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If we think a playoff spot's not in the cards, there will be no concern for appearances or cosmetics whatsoever. We'll continue to address our future and trade off some pieces that would keep us respectable.
Theo Epstein / Manager
Cards
Concern
Cosmetics
Respectable
Appearances
Spot
Playoff
Whatsoever
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We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and those close races created a major surge in attendance in the last month of the season.
Lamar Hunt / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Alive
Attendance
Balance
Outstanding
Position
Race
Team
Surge
Month
Close
Final
Major
Literally
Playoff
Races
Season
Teams
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In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.
Samantha Power / Director For Multilateral Affairs
Flight
Laptops
Nba
Notes
Range
Screens
Statistics
Classes
Depict
Facebook
Parallel
Playoff
Split
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I played in Joe Louis in a playoff game. I played there when the roof caved in for half a season. The facility is great for basketball because it goes straight up, so you feel like the fans are on top of you.
Bill Laimbeer / Basketball Player
Basketball
Facility
Fans
Games
Roof
Louis
Joe
Straight
Playoff
Season
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Any competitor would be frustrated in that moment... but it certainly made sense what Coach Kubiak did for the playoff run. I got replaced by Peyton Manning... I think we all know who is going to play in the game.
Brock Osweiler /
Frustrated
Replaced
Coach
Playoff
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Every game, we're going to go for it, so when we get into playoff time, it's not like, 'You've really got to ratchet it up. You've really got to do something different.' Then what have I been doing the whole time?
Dan Quinn /
Go For It
Playoff
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When you logically think about it, what the BCS people have done, which obviously we're all part of it, I think it was great for a while. I think it took an imperfect system and did the best you can without a playoff.
Urban Meyer / American Football Coach
Imperfect
Best Great People
Logically
Playoff
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I think one of the hardest times was when I almost won a Web.com tour event in 2016 after my freshman year. I lost in a playoff to Ollie Schniederjans and J.J. Spaun. I mean, who knows what could've happened if I'd won?
Collin Morikawa /
Freshman
Freshman Year
Playoff
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I never paid, or intended to pay, $10,000, or any amount of money, to any player for knocking Kurt Warner, Brett Favre or any other player out of the 2009 Divisional playoff game, 2010 NFC Championship Game or any other game.
Jonathan Vilma / Football Player
Championship
Intended
Playoff
Warner
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Playoff basketball isn't about who scores, stats or putting numbers up on the board. It's just about winning at the end of the day. When you play a game in a series, it becomes chess. It becomes who can outsmart the other team.
Lou Williams /
Basketball
Chess
Numbers
Series
Team
Winning
End Of The Day Day Winning
Game
End Of The Day Game Day
Becomes
Board
End Of The Day
Game End Of The Day Day
Playoff
Putting
Scores
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I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.
Calvin Johnson / American Football Player
Locker Room
Rings
Gravitate
Locker
Playoff
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We don't tell the officials to change the standard for the playoffs, but as we all know, time and space tends to evaporate very quickly in a playoff game; there tends to be a lot more physicality and a lot more adjustments in the course of a series.
Gary Bettman / Counsel
Adjustment
Officials
Physicality
Time And Space
Time Change Space
Change Time Space
Evaporate
Change Space Time
Standard
Playoff
Tends
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So you wake up this morning and find you're president of the United States. Pretty cool, no? Helicopters and a 747 at your disposal; courtside seats at any NBA playoff game of your choice; everyone stands up and the band plays when you come into the room.
Jeff Greenfield / Journalist
Band
Helicopters
Nba
Seats
Wake Up
Choice
Disposal
Playoff
Stands
Wake
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Everything we talk about is about beating the Packers, the Bears and the Vikings. Obviously there are other teams in the league, but if you can dominate and be on top of your division you are always in the playoff hunt. It's time for us to win that thing.
Steve Mariucci / Football Coach
Bears
Division
League
Packers
Team
Winning
Time Always Your
Beating
Dominate
Hunt
Obviously
Playoff
Teams
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Vijay Singh won a playoff in 2004 at Whistling Straits after a final-round 76, which was the highest last round by the winner of any major since 1938, when Reg Whitcombe won the British Open with a 78 in a storm that blew down the exhibition tent at Sandwich.
Dan Jenkins / Author
Storm
Whistling
Winner
Blew
British Open
Exhibition
Round
Playoff
Sandwich
Tent
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On our way to the Super Bowl XV Championship, the Oakland Raiders played a frigid 1981 AFC playoff game in Cleveland, in which the temperatures plunged to -35 degrees. I remember looking up in the stands to see a dedicated Cleveland Brown fan celebrating topless.
Burgess Owens /
Championship
Cleveland
Dedicated
Degrees
Oakland
Raiders
Super Bowl
Bowl
Fan
Celebrating
Playoff
Stands
Super
Temperatures
Topless
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I think when they put together this College Football Playoff, I think you... do you play a light schedule and put everything into your conference championship? That's not what I'm feeling across the country. They want to make every game important, which they have.
Urban Meyer / American Football Coach
Championship
College Football
Conference
Football Together Game
Playoff
Schedule
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Every game is its own thing in the playoffs. When you're in them long enough, you understand. If a playoff series goes six or seven games, it's like a rollercoaster. Your emotions are so up, then they're so down. 'You can't do anything right! Then everything's going your way!'
Kyle Korver /
Rollercoaster
Game Long Way
Playoff
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I have done a lot of NFL games, a season-opening home games, playoff games, championship games, and of course Stanley Cup games, World Series, NBA championship games. But I have never done a Superbowl. It's probably the only major sporting event I've never done and I would like to.
Michael Buffer / Announcer
Championship
Nba
Nfl
Stanley
Stanley Cup
World Series
Playoff
Sporting Event
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Obviously I bet on games I officiated. I passed on information based on the meetings that the referees were having, and based on what the league office wanted us to call in playoff games. With that being said, I was able to win at a high percentage when we were betting on NBA games.
Tim Donaghy /
Betting
Nba
Bet
High Percentage
Percentage
Playoff
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I'm from Cleveland, Ohio. And I'll tell you a real quick thing: we didn't have a pro hockey team when I was growing up, so I adopted the Red Wings as my hockey team just so I could, you know, be amused and enjoy playoff hockey every single year. I really get into it. Detroit is my team.
Dolph Ziggler / Professional Wrestler
Adopted
Amused
Cleveland
Detroit
Hockey
Ohio
Wings
Playoff
Pro
Quick
Red Wings
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I think they need to expand the playoff system. I think the minimum should be 16 teams, but they could easily go with more than that... in other words, I want to see more football. Everybody from rec league softball on down can figure out how to put together a tournament and yet Division I can't.
Mike Leach / Football Coach
Division
Football
League
Minimum
Softball
Together
Words
Could
Easily
Down
Expand
Figure
In Other Words
Put
Playoff
System
Teams
Tournament
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I show up in a playoff game, I have my sideline sheet. I can't even spit plays out, I get so excited. I mean, you get nervous. These are critical, do-or-die situations. Third down and 1, Red Zone, what do I call? Two minute drill? Are we going to go no huddle? These are decisions that you wrestle with.
Jon Gruden / Coach
Critical
Nervous
Red
Spit
Zone
Decisions
Game
Show
Call
Drill
Minute
Playoff
Sheet
Sideline
Third
Wrestle
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Hopefully my time in Nashville has helped me. We've had a lot of different things happen to our hockey club, seen a lot of different situations and different types of clubs from an expansion team to a Stanley Cup playoff threat. I think any coach that's gone through those things, you become a better coach.
Barry Trotz / Coach
Clubs
Hockey
Nashville
Stanley
Stanley Cup
Things Happen
Time Me Better
Time Better Me
Different Types
Playoff
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Now you've been in the playoffs once, you know what it tastes like, you know what it feels like. You know, going through the season when Coach is preaching physicality, how hard you gotta play, how you gotta take care of the ball, why he's saying that. Because all that comes into play in playoff basketball.
Dwane Casey / Basketball Coach
Physicality
Preaching
Playoff
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Whenever we're all getting ready for a playoff game, you know how serious those games are, and you try to motivate your guys. There's a lot of emotion that goes into those games, and when I play, it's all about winning, and it's all about doing whatever it takes to fire guys up and to get that emotion running.
Jimmy Graham /
Motivate
Playoff
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I live for the Red Sox. I thoroughly enjoy them. For whatever reason, baseball has been a lot more fun for me in recent years. I loosely follow the Patriots and I root for them. I loosely follow the Celtics and then it gets to playoff time and I don't miss a game. Same with the Bruins. I'm not the diehard fan anymore.
Doug Flutie / American Football Player
Baseball
Diehard
Fun
Years
Time Me Game
Time Game Me
Loosely
Patriots
Playoff
Recent
Recent Years
Root
Sox
Thoroughly
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Sports exact too harsh a toll on our beautiful women. Like engendered species, they should be protected, and instead, we exploit them and demand they fly too close to the sun for our amusement. We send them into the arena for an exhausting three-setter, an 18-hole playoff, a 200th lap. The burnout factor is insurmountable.
Kevin Bleyer / Writer
Sports
Amusement
Arena
Beautiful Women
Burnout
Demand
Exhausting
Harsh
Insurmountable
Lap
Protected
Species
Sun
Close
Exact
Exploit
Factor
Fly
Instead
Playoff
Send
Toll
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It did not matter whether it was preseason, regular season, my first playoff game, or the Super Bowl, I was nervous. And all that meant was that it always mattered to me. Anytime I was putting myself on a line, it didn't matter what it was, it was okay to be nervous because it was important to me. It was important to do my job well.
Kurt Warner / Football Analyst
Super Bowl
Myself Always Me
Anytime
Bowl
Myself Game Me
Mattered
Playoff
Regular Season
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There are lots of decisions, and also non-decisions, that go into this job. In the same way that it can be impossible to separate a coach from the players, it's also impossible to separate the GM from the coach from the players. You just have to ask: Is the GM helping the team have playoff success? Is he giving the team a chance to win the title?
Daryl Morey / General Manager
Gm
Playoff
Success Is
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