Hayley Wickenheiser Team Quotations

To defend the gold for our team and every Canadian back home is huge. For us, it's all gold or nothing. There's no other medal to win in this tournament. That's the pressure we put on ourselves. We're just happy we can land in Canada with everybody smiling.

You'd never see that on a men's team with a little baby on the bus who is crying at midnight. All the girls enjoy having him around. It's refreshing if it makes her feel comfortable, we're fine with it.

You don't want to leave anything to chance. Unfortunately, because I hate blowing teams out like that.

We are a pro team in every sense of the word outside of being paid like pro players.

I could go on an on. All the girls on this team can tell you similar stories.

That was such an important time for us, as a team. It was our second gold medal in a row, following Salt Lake City, and really established ourselves as the best team in the world.