Pat Burns Quotes

If you don't take care of the ball in this league, I know it's tough to win.

Usually when you play a team, you want to focus on one line. Pittsburgh is the only team where you have to focus on one player [Mario Lemieux]. When he's coming toward you, all you see is him.

In games against humans, you often win because the opponent blunders a piece, and you can often survive when you do it yourself. Against the computer, you make only one mistake - the last one.

Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.

Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.

I know what to do when they give me the ball. I know what to do to give this team a chance to win.

I started as a fourth-line fighter, went to being a third-line centre, then a second-line winger and a first-line centre. I've played every role there is, and the only thing that matters is helping the team win.

If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much.

The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightning, plague of locusts... nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.

What’s the point of playing if winning isn’t the goal?

The nicer the point, the more -- the better I feel, the more excited I get. But I never play that my opponent looks stupid. I think that is wrong. I have too much respect for every opponent I play.

I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.

On his attempt at the Edmonton Oilers empty net: I guess they respect my shot because they were all ready at the blue line.

I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It's what I love the most.

He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous.

I've always said, not giving too much away, I'm a believer in having all your stars on the pitch.

I don't understand referees. It appears like some players can't even be touched, but in my case, everyone can hit me as hard as they can.

Winning is always fun, but the car is more important.

Stupid women, and all are stupid, think the first winning of the man the final victory. Then they settle down and grow fat, and stale, and dead, and heartbroken. Alas, they are so stupid. But you, little infant-woman with your first victory, you must make your love-life an unending chain of victories. Each day you must win your man again. And when you have won the last victory, when you can find no more to win, then ends love. Finis is written, and your man wanders in strange gardens.

With all that IMF money, the Thailand's and Mexico's are spared the consequences of their fiscal incompetence, and Wall Street's heavy hitters are spared the consequences of their stupid investments. The global economy is a rigged game, rigged so Third World politicians, rich investors and global corporations win - and U.S. taxpayers lose.

The best way to win is to play well early or late in the game. The middle part tends to take care of itself.

There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

It's tough, it's not the scenario that we wanted for sure. I thought our desperation was there, we worked hard, but it was one game, a lot can happen, they're a good team, and unfortunately we didn't win. We had some bad bounces, and in one game those make a big difference, and unfortunately it didn't go our way. But if we play hard like that, we play desperate like that and control the puck the way we did down low, I like our chances against any team.

Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win.