Adam Burish Quotes (61 Quotes)

It's a huge emotional lift for this group (to score first). In the locker room, that's what the guys always say, 'Let's get that first goal, let's jump on them early.' It takes the pressure off. You allow yourself to relax a little bit knowing you got that first one.

The last couple weeks here, guys have been excited. Guys have been rejuvenated. They want to practice. They want to be around each other. You can't ask for anything more this time of year.

Those guys said our attitude was, we were going to win this junior championship. So now you can put that energy into this - we're going to win this Showdown. That's what we're going to do. Put your mind to it and that's it. No other way about it.

One more (game) left to win a championship. We didn't come here to enjoy the atmosphere and see the Miller Brewer Company.

We wanted to pressure them and we did. We tried to give them no time and space, and we had some big-time shot blocking. That was a back-breaker.

A kid that big takes up a ton of the net.

They're going to support us and that place is going to be packed every night, I'm sure of it. They're going to be loud, they're going to be screaming. It's going to be a mini-Kohl Center feeling that we're going to have.

The promise was I was going to do a Lambeau Leap into the glass, but I got so wrapped up in the moment, I didn't know what I was doing out there.

Guys were saying, 'Two more left, two more to go. We want more. This group thinks it deserves more. The attitude is let's do whatever it takes to get this thing done.

That first year was the toughest year of hockey I'd ever been through.

I can see the whole world up here right now.

To win the league is probably over. This is about as disappointed as I think I've been maybe in my four years.

When he plays well, they play harder in front of him. Obviously then, getting an early goal is going to be key for us.

You just can't put it into words. I know I haven't stopped smiling yet. This whole game was great for the program. Every time you put that sweater on you're representing all the great players that have played here, all the championships that have been won. It is a special place at Wisconsin and the following we have is second to none.

Unless you were in that dressing room and around the whole thing, you can't describe it. I don't think I've stopped smiling yet since the game has ended.

If you take some time to look back and see where we've been and what we've been through, to bring this program back to a No. 1 seed overall in the country is pretty special.

Coach won't give us the guy's e-mail address.

It's not pressure, it's excitement.

I feel like I can do anything right now. I can probably jump off and I can fly.

To score a goal early always helps, especially in a big game like this, to settle guys down.

We've seen how hard they play. They compete so hard, they're up and down the ice, they skate well and they're physical. If we can match their intensity and play as hard as they do, that gives us a chance to be successful.

Every night, the last three games he's played, the onus has kind of been on the guys up front. We haven't scored enough goals to give him that support, and we also haven't done our part defensively.

Being on that side, I know what they were going through. It's frustrating.

You know how John Madden diagrams where your hips have to be above the green barrier I think our guys had our hips above it. We were perfect.

At the start of every practice, we skated around the ice and passed back and forth to (one another's) partner. It was pretty basic and pretty monotonous after a while, but it kind of gives you the idea that, hey, back to square one.

I've been talking about how awesome it was when they won. Madison, just everywhere in this state, went crazy. Everyone was talking about Badger hockey.

I'm not nervous, I'm not scared, I'm not worried about it being my last game. I'm excited, I want to put that jersey on for one last time ... and take it off one last time as a champion.

I hope it's snowing. I think that will be cool for some reason. If there was some crazy snowstorm, it would make the story that much greater that we played a game out there at Lambeau Field with it snowing. It would be like a Packer game then.

One more to go. We came here to win a championship.

We had talked about it -- how cool it would be. It was a special moment.

He doesn't say anything. He just smiles at them, laughs and lines back up.

I said we're national champions together the rest of our lives. No one can take that from us.

They talk their trash, they come out there and they back it up. They're in your face the whole game. They don't back off for one second. They're tough, they're physical, they have skill. I can tell right now why that team's won two national championships.

The guys are excited. We know it's going to be a red-and-white filled building. People are going to be screaming for Wisconsin, so it's going to be an exciting atmosphere.

It was outstanding. There'd be a dead point in the game, and all of a sudden, they'd start clapping. It's a great boost.

To go through that, to build the character that us five seniors have and kind of formed us who we are today, I wouldn't change a thing. I'd have that first year the same way so I could end up just like this year.

I lay awake in bed at night, thinking about how it will feel. How great it will feel to win it.

It was good to get to see her. She came down on the ice and we got our picture taken together. It's something we can celebrate the rest of our lives.

It's just as much a mental battle as it is physically, too. You got to tell yourself, 'I'm not tired. I'm not tired.' 'It's easy to quit here, it's easy to quit, but we're not quitting,' we said in the dressing room.

I still remember that, the feeling we got. We looked at each other on the bench and said 'Let's go.' We scored one, let's go again. And two shifts later we scored another one. We told coach, get us out there. Ride us. It was a pretty neat feeling.

This is the ultimate stage in college hockey and we're excited. I don't feel any pressure. I don't think these guys feel any extra pressure, it's more of an excitement. We've been saying we couldn't wait for this time to come.

One more left. We want to win a championship. That's what we came here to do. We didn't come here just to enjoy the atmosphere.

Yale had won one game all year and they came in and they dominated us. We had to scramble in the last couple of minutes just to tie it up, 1-1. It's embarrassing. The fans don't deserve to have to see that, and for the work that we put in as a group, that's embarrassing to us. That sticks in the back of our heads - I know it sticks in my head.

Tommy scored our first goal our freshman year in our first game and now he scores the last one, so pretty neat for him. But what an unbelievable script. To do it right in front of these people, too, in front of this crowd, I'm just beside myself.

The boys will win another one. I think the guys are going to be the first ones to win three (in a row).

We ask him about, what do you guys say in the dressing room, what was the focus like, and then you ask what was the party like afterwards.

It's going to be wild. I'm anticipating it will be the loudest crowd I've ever been around. I know the Green Bay people. As soon as you put a couple beers in them, they're wild. They love their sports, they love to cheer, they love to scream. It's going to be a rowdy atmosphere.

We had a great relationship in Green Bay, but now it's closer. We're 10 times closer than we were in Green Bay. We're able to relate more personably. We're able to talk more on a personal level. But in Green Bay, it was mostly about hockey.

It was mentioned quickly in our meeting last night. But it was more about us. Just what we needed to do, what we needed to focus on to be successful.

We feel like with our skill set and with the way we play, put your best line out there against us and we'll see what happens. We have fun with that.