Hayley Wickenheiser Win Quotations

To be Olympic champions for the second time in a row is great. It's definitely harder to defend gold than to win it.

It doesn't matter to me; we could fly under the radar all the way to the big game that we win and that would be fine.

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.

...is to win the Olympic gold medal this year, that's for sure the biggest one.

We expected Italy to be weak. I don't know if we would have predicted that score, but we're not going to apologize for winning by that much. It's the Olympic Games and we've got a gold medal to try and win.

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

We're expecting to go over and win the gold and defend the gold medal. Anything less would be disappointing for us. We know what we have to do. It's just a matter of doing it on the day when it counts the most.