Cammi Granato Quotations

Guys would take runs at me even if I didn't have the puck. [On one occasion] my coach told me that the other team were told to hit number 21 as hard as they could the first period, so we switched jerseys.

My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire life was geared around getting there and winning gold.

Women are playing [hockey] because they love it, not because they’re trying to be a woman in a man’s game.

When I have given what I have given to the program, it is hard to just sit with this.

I'd like to think I have enough self-awareness to know when my time as a player is done. But if for some reason, unbeknownst to me, that I couldn't see when the end was for me, I have a support group of high level hockey people, family, teammates, and friends, who give me honest assessments of my game all the time. They would tell me.

But as the (former) leader of my team, how would I even be able to deal with something like that? I haven't been able to go there.

It hurts when you know something is so wrong and there is nothing you can really do about it,

Please, ... don't indicate that I brought this up at all. ... Besides smiling about it, I haven't taken it further.

Man or woman, Cammi Granato is one of the most impressive hockey leaders I've ever come across.

I trained as hard for this camp as any before and I came to Lake Placid ready to compete and ready to succeed. This hasn't been easy news for me and it is going to take some time to absorb and understand this. It's not what I trained for and it's certainly not what I expected. That said, I'm extremely proud of the players who were named to the roster. They're great athletes, great competitors, and they will represent our country with pride and honor.

I had a good camp. I felt like I was really going. Moving well, shooting well, and confident in me and our team, ... I was never told I was on a bubble to make the team.

If I had slowed down, I would step aside gracefully and be OK with it,