Pat Quinn Quotes (235 Quotes)

We played a lot better, so that has to be looked at as an improvement, especially over Saturday night.

This is going to be even more onerous than playing a playoff game every second day. We have to pay attention to our own team. We can't control what the teams ahead of us do, but we can control our own game.

He has shown, basically in my mind, the signs of leadership.

He's had that type of season where he could warrant that position. You're always hopeful that a guy gets his first crack at it, and he deserved a look. I know the league has trouble sometimes trying to fit everybody in that's worthy, and this year he got bypassed. I don't think it put him down for long. He's like all of us -- you wish for that recognition when you do good work. And he's done good work.

We had a lot of guys who wanted to play easy tonight. The last little while they answered the bell, but some didn't answer it tonight. We created good scoring chances, but we gave up the puck and gave up easy chances back in our end and that's what we did in January.

Talent We have talent. Talent is only part of the whole thing. We tried to rely on talent tonight. I hope we learned.

You look at your talent, you watch how we run our practices, you think the intangibles with this team were pretty good.

Many of those on the frontlines in the Global War on Terror have suffered invisible, as well as visible, scars, ... It's our duty to help those afflicted with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder upon their return home.

The 26 players we selected today are the ones who we feel will get us (back) to that gold-medal circle.

We thought about switching every day and creating new lines but then we decided not to, ... The whole idea here was the introduction of some concepts of play. Rather then have them worrying about adjusting to new guys every day, we wanted them to concentrate and focus on trying to absorb the system we want to play.

They battled us hard and it was one of those games that was going to get decided along the boards and in the pits, it wasn't a wide-open affair.

It's frustrating, but it's a daily challenge every day. We haven't responded as well as I feel we are capable of. I don't like where we are, but we haven't been playing for a month and a half.

He had lots of power-play time and it wasn't going for him. Maybe he was pressing, maybe the time away left some edge off his game and he might be ready to try again.

Mark, I think, provided some real leadership for that team, ... Apparently lots of things went on behind the scenes there and he was a big part of keeping that group together. Behind the scenes he had kept that very talented and veteran team on line.

It was just cowardice. That's trying to hurt people and there should be no place in the game for that. This was a disgrace.

The plan was to leave them, let them develop further. They're doing an awful good job in Sweden and Finland training these players. We don't want to rush them.

Starting today, preparation will be for going forward.

It's all about results. You run a great risk if you spend your time chasing fads. What you chase has to be a proven method of teaching, and that has to be incorporated into the design.

It'll be the same process as far as trying to come together but last time we were hit with one of the best teams in the world right off the hop.

The league is handling it, and it's not for me to answer it, and it's not for me to be thinking about it. Wayne is a big part of our group and we will move forward.

Right now we're trying to build some team work, we're trying to build some confidence,

It's totally different. You're not going to see the physical playoff style if everybody is afraid of penalties. So far, we've won our games on special teams and we've lost our games on special teams. Five-on-five is like the dodo bird.

We have this eight-game stretch that we thought would be big and it still is.

These are my heroes, ... And to see the faces on the people as they cheer each group as the go by, is really wonderful.

That was one of the years I thought we had a real good chance to end up against Detroit. We had so many injuries, but yet such courageous performances that maybe you just dream you can do it all.

If I start worrying about stuff like that, then I'll be losing my own focus. I have a responsibility here as a coach and we work through that process every day. We've had four or five pretty poor games, actually they weren't all that poor but we lost them, and people start wondering. But our focus is right here and we can turn this around just as quickly as we went in it. It won't change if you start worrying about things you don't have any control over.

You don't want to give away your real assets for now unless it really makes a lot of sense. Teams want to make sure that four years from now they're as strong as they are now and have a chance to win.

I don't feel very good. You only get certain chances to stand as the best and I really believed that we had a team that was capable of that.

He's a more mature player, a guy who is in better control. He's gone from pest to a good solid player showing leadership.

A lot of this information comes to me through you guys. As far as I know, we've got to wait until they take the cast off.

You have to use your games to pull this together. You've seen the last two games and we're not pulling this together.

With the red line removed, ... those two will be able to play with the puck and make surprising passes.

We have kids this year that we want to watch closely,

We were hoping to have him healthy. You wouldn't think it would be something like a wrist (that could end his career.) That's bad luck.

I ask myself the same question. In both games in Montreal we had a good jump early and got deflated fast. We have had it and not been able to sustain it, but (Sunday night), we did.

It was pretty lousy, maybe worse than that.

Montreal wants that (eighth-place) spot back, so they'll be ready to go. Those are playoff games, that's what they are. I expect that to be a rip-roaring building.

It's been a frustrating time for him and us as well. We had hoped to have him healthy.

It has been a continued growth for him. He's a more mature player. He's in better control and makes good decisions. He's gone from The Pest to a good, solid player.

One of the things Team Canada management wanted to do, because we have so many talented Canadian players, was that availability of selecting the guy who's hot at the time.

They were head-hunting, there should be no place in the game for that. Cowardly, that's all it is ... a bunch of cowards.

We've got to be a better team and we will be tomorrow. We did some good things tonight and we'll try and build off that.

That's a lack of discipline.

Hopefully he won't miss any time.

(If you think) you can come to games and turn it on, already you are in a frame of mind you should not be in.

Our guys have been pretty hot with those shots, ... Most teams are dropping off the points to cover down low so we're getting - and other teams are getting - better point opportunities to score goals.

I just figured I'd make a little change. It was just a coach's decision before the game. I didn't expect him to like it.

It's been frustrating. We are going to have to find a way to get things turned around here in an awful hurry if we want to be in the playoffs.

I still haven't seen anything that gives me any indication we're becoming a team. We have no continuity in five-man hockey. We're not playing much like a team right now.

He's a hockey person, a hockey dad, and secretly, I think he loves the Leafs.