Peter Forsberg Quotes (103 Quotes)

We just wanted to see how it felt after yesterday. It feels good, no problem.

He's got great spirit. He scores big goals, and you have to know where he is. He gives everything every single night.

Buffalo is tough. We just have to worry about ourselves.

Well, you have your regular classes, like three hours every other day, three times a week. You get twice a week to have an ice practice. Once a week you have weight lifting. It was great.

I'm surprised he hasn't scored more goals before. He knows what to do, and hopefully I can find him for a few more.

It's sore enough not to play. I've never had problems with knees before, so I don't think it's going to be a long-term thing. It's just a little sprain, but it was weak enough not to be able to play.

I'm not going to go into exactly how I felt, ... Sometimes it doesn't work out. . . . But that's in the past. It's kind of a new chapter, but I'm really excited. I played in Colorado for a long time, 10 years. But the pages are turning and I'm really excited to be here.

I'm very nervous and I'm very excited. It's been a long time (nine months) since I played a game. This is a new team, so it's going to be really special for me.

We wished we had time to go back to Sweden.

This is the fun time. This is what you play for.

I don't think we played good enough to win a hockey game today, ... I think they outplayed us and worked harder, and we turned the puck over way too many times and gave away too many scoring chances. They wanted to win more than we did.

It was good for us to get a day to hang out together and have fun. Just get away from hockey a little bit, and this is a great place to do it.

There's nothing quite like the playoffs. Everyone wants to be the hero. I think about that a lot.

I think today, in the last game at home, we played our game. That's what we have to do up there (in Buffalo).

I wouldn't accept losing as a team, wouldn't accept losing as my team. It's like a war every practice. I think it helped us a lot.

It's more important to be healthy for the playoffs than one or two games. I want to come back healthy. I want to make sure I'm 100 percent.

It felt really good, very positive, much better than I thought. I trained a little bit on the ice Thursday morning when you all media were sleeping.

I think it's better hockey now, not too much grabbing and holding. I think it's good for hockey that we've got the back and forth, good skating and a lot more scoring chances.

It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.

Id say thats pretty doubtful right now. I hope to get into a game this weekend, maybe Friday or Saturday.

It's kind of becoming a habit up here. We're not working hard enough. We're not getting enough chances. There's nothing to say about them winning. They were better.

We didn't play good enough as a line or a team. Everybody feels brutal right now, getting killed at home, losing. We're out of the playoffs.

I feel good being here. I think it's good for me, too, when I come back to Philadelphia ... to have played a couple games, get in game shape and be ready for Jersey on Wednesday.

I was much more nervous this time. I was only 20 years old, and I didn't know how hard it was going to be to get back to the Olympic final. I think I appreciate this one more.

I think everybody felt it was our turn this time. We'd been knocked out in the quarterfinals the last two Olympics. The atmosphere around the team was that we wanted to win this one.

He's been out all year. If he comes back it's a bonus, but we're not counting on it. We have to turn it around without him. We have to play much smarter than we did today.

I feel good I feel nothing in my groin. ... It was good to play for 60 minutes and get a good game and be ready for Sunday.

They came at us hard, and we turned the puck over way too many times, ... They were all over us. They worked hard and they wanted to win. You could see they were a desperate team and we weren't.

I'm going to skate a little harder each day and we'll see about Monday. I'm happy to be back. I missed 11 days of training camp.

It was great for us to come out and play the way we did today. Right off the bat, getting the puck deep, hustling, and getting a lot of goals, we came out hard and showed we have a lot of healthy guys. We're a good team.

Maybe we try to force it too much. They have great offensive players and if you give them the room ... plus they've been scoring a lot of power-play goals against us. We have to make sure in those two areas, we can't give the first line too many opportunities.

Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.

You can't really treat them like rookies. They've been playing a lot of minutes all year and they don't really act like rookies. They play really mature.

It definitely feels good to be playing for gold again.

They always seemed to find a way to get the first goal. Its tough when you keep getting down one goal or two goals and they did that all six games. Its tough to come back from that. You can do it a couple of times but not in the long run. Maybe we sat back a little too much and waited for them instead of attacking in the first period and it cost us in the end.

I thought it was in when I shot it, but it went over the net. But there's nothing you can do but keep working and not get down.

I'm looking forward to my first game in three weeks. It's proven to be a good decision to have waited a bit longer than I needed to. Maybe I rested a few more days than necessary, but it's better to be safe.

I don't really care. I feel good and I feel healthy enough to play. I hope everyone in the Flyers understands. If we were with the Flyers right now, I'd be playing.

I think you should win if you have a two-goal lead. When you stop playing and stop working hard, that's when the other team is going to be all over you the whole time.

We have to play better than we did today up in New York. It's going to be a little tougher game than it was today.

I thought I had the blocker side and he took it away. It's not a shocker that he's doing good in shootouts. He's a great goalie.

Before the Olympics, I would have been surprised if you had told me that Canada and the USA would not get a medal. But after I got here and saw the way the (European) teams are playing, I am not very surprised.

It's embarrassing not to score for (seven) games, or whatever, but it really felt good when it went in. I'm happy we tied it up and won the game. It was big for us. It got kind of annoying to not score for a long time.

I skated. I felt fine. No problem at all with the groin. It was better than I expected. I practiced yesterday morning and it also felt great.

Right off the bat, we came out hard and played really solid today. I cant say anything else. I think everybody played hard and well. Were one point behind and we have one (game-in-hand), so it looks pretty good.

It's a very tough situation. I would not go to the Olympics if I did not feel 100 percent. I know who is paying my salary. I have a responsibility here. But if I do feel good, I want to represent my country.

They know the game real well and they know what to do in pressure situations. They're playing like they have a couple years behind them.

I'm excited, ... They are one of the teams that always wants to win. It's a great organization.

It's better to be lucky than good, I guess. The second one, I at least tried to bank it off him.

It's a hard decision. I want to be there for my country, but I don't want to get injured again.