Jeremy Roenick Quotations

We have no confidence in our ability and no confidence that we are doing it right. We just made too many mistakes. We are afraid of failure and doing something wrong.

We're a strong union, but we are frustrated with the lack of communication, the lack dialogue and negotiation by the NHL,

So look for him to come up with something. I know in Minnesota, Jacques is trying to do the same thing. It's interesting to see what's going to work. We're going to have to work in a lot of systems to try to counteract no red line. It's probably going to drive me out of my mind, but they're going to have to find something to counter long-ice passes and guys cheating through centre ice.

My heart is really hurt, ... Philly is a tough place to leave because it's one of the best organizations in pro sports. They have some of the classiest people in management and without a doubt the best owner. It hurts to know that they are going to have a good team this year and I'm not going to be a part of it.

I'm a little shook up. When you take two shots, point blank to the face like I have in the past two months, it's a pretty scary thing. I have to see how the neurological stuff turns out and how my body reacts before I do anything.

I found out this morning. I have to go back (to Los Angeles) for surgery.

I don't think it takes the brain of a rocket scientist to figure out that they had more jump than we did. We didn't have any kind of work ethic that they did. You have to start off with a guy like myself . . . and it goes right down the line.

Having him stand behind the bench is a great thing for the game of hockey, and we need that coming out of the lockout. He has so much pizzazz, and he brings so much leverage to the game that it's a perfect thing for the National Hockey League to have Wayne more involved.

The owners can sit there and do giveaways and lower ticket prices to get the fans back to the game knowing that what they are really doing is taking it out of our pockets, ... It's important to get people back into the arenas to watch hockey, but it is a lot easier to do when (the owners) know they still get money back because they are taking it out of our paycheck. In essence, the players are paying for all the giveaways and free stuff that the owners are doing. Which is all well and good, but you don't hear about it.

He was great. He stayed sharp and made some big saves when we needed them, especially on a couple of their power plays.

Just when I was starting to get into a groove and getting things in the right place, this happens. But, oh well, what are you going to do?

I think it indicates the state of our game, the lack of respect especially in preseason,

I think it indicates the state of our game, the lack of respect - especially in preseason,

I think it's going to be a circus for them. I know Ken Hitchcock was sitting in his office for the last year and a half trying to come up with a system to defend against the no red line (two-line pass). So look for him to come up with something. I know in Minnesota, Jacques is trying to do the same thing. It's interesting to see what's going to work. We're going to have to work in a lot of systems to try to counteract no red line.

I think it's going to be a circus for them,

I think the owners got a deal very favorable to them, ... It gives them leeway to do more than they should be able to do with our salaries.

I think they were holding the fact I haven't played in the last two World Cups against me. I'm a lot better player than my points indicate. I'm one of the guys that have (got) the USA to where it is today.

Last night was really deflating. For us to come back with an energy-filled game shows that this team is ready and poised for a lot of hard work. It's really gratifying.

I say personally, to everybody who called us 'spoiled,' you guys are just jealous . . . we have tried so, so hard to get this game back on the ice.

Our team has been awesome, ... I've been very pleasantly surprised at how awesome every guy in our locker-room is. I've just had a great time with these guys.

Playing with Cammalleri and Frolov, I have to work a little harder, ... They're speedy.

My whole point was that there's a time and a place to make hits like that. I'm a firm believer that pre-season isn't the time for those kinds of hits. And both of us are guys that been around, our jobs aren't at stake.

I think our team put forth a hell of an effort. I thought we dominated the hockey game.

That's the most you've seen Bryan McCabe hit anybody in a long time,

I was never angry at the way I was hit. I think it was a very clean hit, actually a great hit by Denis,

To be on the (stationary) bike every day, sometimes twice a day, and just being skated without pucks for five weeks, six weeks, that (expletive) is for the birds.

When we watch hockey games and see 8,000 fans in (Washington) D.C., you cringe as a player, ... Those cities that aren't pulling their weight in terms of drawing fans and revenue are hurting everybody as a whole, not just that city.

But the media picked out the negative stuff. ... Don't show snippets of the interview; show the whole interview, the whole message. My message during the interview was: How do we make the game more appealing to the fans?

But seriously, ... I love doing all this stuff and I try to do as much for the team as I can. Like tomorrow, we're going on a few lunch dates with some guys to renew their season tickets. Hopefully my being there can help sell a few season tickets. I want to do as much as I can to promote our team.

To not have the opportunity to go back one more time and try and win the gold is obviously, in my opinion, very disrespectful. They can beat me down and say I'm over the hill or say that I don't have it anymore, but to me, I know that I do.

We tried to give Andy what he wanted. We were like an energy line.

We're going to try to make it better for everybody, period, end of subject. And if you don't realize that, then don't come.

There's nobody on the Olympic team that's scored more points than I have, who's had a career like I've had in terms of physicality and putting points on the board and being a leader.

It would be a travesty if I'm not. I know they want a youth movement, and they need to have one, but it'd be disrespectful of the guys who have gotten Team USA to this point internationally.

It's a shame. These guys have been, for the last 12 to 15 years, the catalyst for what the league is all about.

It's a total lack of confidence. We make too many mistakes because we're afraid of doing something wrong. You've got to play to win. You can't play like you're trying to prevent losing.

It's (bad) that we lost. We worked hard. We deserved a better fate. I think we showed them that we're going to be a hard team to play against in this building.

It's a lack of desperation and a lack of effort.

It's a huge win in that it allows us to see where we are at this time of the year, ... We played a very controlled game. Our defense was very good with the exception of four minutes in the second period.

It's not that I want to get paid. I'm trying to decide if I want to play this game again, and right now I don't think I can.

It's good to have a break now. We've been struggling and battling, so to get two wins before the break is nice. We need to step back away from the game and re-energize ourselves. I've got a couple of wounds I need to heal right now, and I think everybody else does too.

It's precautionary. They don't want me to skate with a blade on, and I don't know that I have that good of willpower to not shoot a puck.

It's unfortunate (the lockout) got as ugly as it did. I think our fans, hockey fans, are true blue fans. They love the game and they love the fact that the hockey players are probably the best athletes out there, in terms of being personal, and they're going to come back in droves.

Everyone makes such a big deal about him sometimes, ... If I didn't have my own thing going, I would forever feel that I was on the sidelines.

I've done a lot for USA hockey. This is really my last chance to be in the Olympics and they took it away from me.

It was a fluky goal they (the Wings) scored on the game-winner. But they're a good team.

It was a fluky goal they (the Wings) scored on the game-winner, ... But they're a good team.

I'm mulling over a lot of things right now and I'm not ruling out retirement,

I knew it wasn't going to feel good, but I was excited and I love the opportunity to play again.

I liked Patrick's quote, (that) he would have stopped me. I wanted to know where he was in Game 3. He was probably getting his jock out of the rafters of the United Center.

I have not been contacted by anyone about this. I am not a suspect.

I guess he realized his team needed a big night and he brought it. That's what you need from some of your top players when your backs are against the wall.

I'm trying to calm him down a little bit. He goes to a different level than I do, ... I don't think I would ever single out one specific group of people and demean them. But hey, I've lived by the media and I've died by the media.

I'm an L.A. kind of guy. Those who know me will understand that.

I know nobody on that team has more points in the National Hockey League than me. So if they want to go that way, good luck.

If I can help Bob Probert in any way, you know I'm going to do it. There's probably a lot of money sitting in the PA bank account right now that could really help him.

I don't think there is anybody in this locker room who didn't leave it all on the ice. Our effort was tremendous. They got the bounces in the end, but it wasn't for lack of effort.

The only difference between the Coyotes and 'Days of Our Lives' is that nobody has been shot on our team yet.

We don't want you at the rink, we don't want you in the stadium, we don't want you to watch hockey,

They just love to complain about me because I'm an American who gets more press than their Canadian players.

I think the deal is not great for the players. It is definitely an owner-friendly deal.

I'm obviously into the sports. The NFL games and the NHL games.

With my kids I have to get involved in the Scooby Doo games and the basic kid games that go on. I find myself getting on it more and more just because of my kids.

My only goal is to win the Stanley Cup and do what I have to to win that.

Obviously ice hockey's much faster. You play street hockey, most likely, with a ball. Where the puck is more difficult to maneuver with. There's not too many things that are different. Playing on the ice is totally, totally different than playing on the street. It's totally a different game in that aspect.

The competitiveness, playing in front of 18-19,000 people every single night, people asking for my autograph, getting recognized, being able to do something like this with Sega and being on the front of a box, and being involved in video games, and listening to movies where they reference my name like in Swingers. All these things they make life so exciting, you don't know what to expect next.

When I get home, I'm not very happy. Especially when I didn't do something to help the cause.

We can no longer ignore the stupidity of the hits that are still happening today despite the fact that the players know the concussion aspect is such a big part of the game and sports in general.

It's not my fault Snow didn't have any other options coming out of high school. If going to college gets you a career backup goaltender job, and my route gets you a thousand points and a thousand games, and compare the two contracts, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out whose decision was better.

Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person.

You can't just go outside and play hockey. It's more of an expensive sport.

Football, you can go out and buy a football and play it in your backyard. Basketball, you can go out and play it in the schoolyard or in your driveway. Baseball, you get a glove and a bat and a ball and you go out and play in the neighborhood. You can't do that in hockey.

As a professional athlete, there aren't too many things as gratifying as being on the front of a box. Whether it be a cereal box or a game box. It's very gratifying.

If I had a bad game and we lost I take it very seriously. I feel if I play a good game that other guys will follow and that will help us win more games. And if I don't, I take it upon myself as being my fault.

I think there are a lot of crazy guys that I've played with in the past. Wayne VanDorp, when I played in Chicago. He wasn't a big name, but my God was he nuts.

This is our canvas. Our easel. This is how we paint, on fresh sheets of ice.