Andy Murray Quotes (83 Quotes)

As we told our guys this morning, from what we've seen, this would be the best team that we've played this year so far. And I still feel that way. They're one of the top teams in the Western Conference. But we took advantage of our opportunities, and our penalty killers stepped up.

Our penalty killing was good, our guys blocked shots and Mathieu was solid in the net. These are desperate times and we needed something to happen, and in the third period we found a way to do it.

I'm a bit disappointed because I thought I was serving as well as I did in the other matches,

I like playing against serve-and-volleyers because returning is one of my best things that I do on the court. So playing against him, it kind of suits me a bit more than him playing against me.

I don't expect anything great here at all. My injury will never go away. It's already become so chronic there's no chance to fix it so I can play without pain. I played pretty consistently.

The fitness side has taken time, because I grew a lot at the start of the year and played a lot of tournaments soon after that.

It was pretty tough to go and hold your serve after taking a break as long as that. I didn't feel sick at all after that. It didn't make a difference.

It doesn't make a difference to me as I am playing for Great Britain and it does not matter, ... It would not give me an extra edge.

I think we've stayed fairly consistent in our approach. We play the same system in Manchester. Bruce Boudreau coached there for seven years there and coached the way we like to coach up here. And now that Jim Hughes is (there), he's doing the same thing.

When the ball was high and when it was low I couldn't put any pressure on my leg. I just thought it was better to stop than to risk hurting myself even more.

We gave up a breakaway when we tried a backhand pass from about 60 feet that doesn't make a lot of sense. We're all accountable, including myself.

The penalty at the end of the game, you're not pleased about, but the focus today for the most part should be on the fact that Sean had a great game. Sean knows how I feel about things, and I think our players are going to deal with that with Sean. We always want him to stay on the positive side of things, but certainly we're not pleased with the penalties.

I said most of my things after the first and second periods. I said my piece and it was time for them to come up with an explanation. ... We just weren't very good.

The Aberdeen Cup promises to be a memorable event. To play for a Scotland team on my home turf against an England team containing the likes of Greg Rusedski is a great opportunity. To have the chance to play alongside my brother will make it a particularly special occasion and I'm sure the people of Aberdeen will make it an event to remember.

I reached the final of an ATP tournament and now I know I can live with the best players, but I still have a lot to work on,

I would say it was not a dirty hit, but it was probably uncalled for in a game like this. We know tht Jeremy had Gauthier lined up in Phoenix and backed off on him on a similar-type situation where he could have hurt him. I wouldn't say this was even a penalty, but there are some things that don't have to happen in a game like this. Our track record hasn't been great with these types of injuries, but we're hoping he's back right away.

I didn't start off well, and then from second set to fourth set, I thought I played pretty well. I fought hard. It's not easy coming back from two-sets-to-love down when you're playing someone who's playing as well as he is. In the fifth set, when I got broken, I ran out of gas.

Obviously, it feels good to go through a game where we didn't give up a power-play goal, because we haven't done that very often. They have one of the better power plays in the National Hockey League. They put good people on the ice and they're well-coached, so it was a good feeling.

It's great just to be on the court with him. To beat him is amazing.

I mean none of the teenagers played well. I think were not going to play well every week even Federer, it took him a while before he started to play as well as he is now.

I played pretty consistently. I played pretty solid, used my slice and I made him go for it. When he did, he started to make mistakes.

We certainly had our chances to win the hockey game in the third period and in overtime.

They might look at the fact that we haven't won for three games. Sometimes a coach might make a change for the sake of change. I'm not necessarily one of those coaches.

I can get into most of the big draws now and if I win a few games in Australia at the start of next year then I could get into the Masters outright so that is my main aim.

Salute the Mighty Ducks. It was good for hockey in Southern California.

They're both young guys whose credentials in (AHL) are very similar, ... I believe in playing the goalie that's getting it done for you. The right response is to say (neither) will play 82 games. Maybe one will play 81, but that's just a way of saying we're going to play the best goalie.

I'll be fired up tomorrow because if I expect my team to be energized and ready to go to work, I'd better make sure I'm energized myself. I've got some friends who are in the car business here, and I'm not ready to get back into that business yet, so I want to keep coaching.

They will be able to tune in and get information about sale items or news before they even enter the shop.

I thought Sean had a great game. He's a very underestimated hockey player. I'm not pleased with the penalty at the end. But I'm looking at the positives Sean did today.

The effort was fine. I can't fault our players for their effort. We just have to play a little smarter.

I'd seen him play a couple of times and he's a good player. He hasn't made any mistakes early on in the rally, so I had to play five or six shots to win most of them.

What concerns me is we had a 5-on-3 for a full two minutes in the third period with five good players on the ice and we can't get into the zone to set it up. We wasted a good effort against a very good team.

Tonight we took some unnecessary penalties. Our penalty kill was not good and their power play was good.