Mark Richards Quotations

Until we clinch a playoff spot, we have to play every game with a sense of urgency and desire. If we play Fayetteville like we played Jacksonville (on Tuesday), we'll lose by six goals.

We're becoming a good hockey team. You obviously want to win the games, but we're getting points over Jacksonville right now. It's a different feeling going into the locker room every night. A couple of months ago, we came into games hoping not to get embarrassed.

We knew this was a downhill race and that we'd be very, very hard to beat.

Many of them are not sure what being a leader is yet. I want to allow them to use events that are important to the community ... to allow them to have that opportunity to be that leader.

My second thought was my wife (Cyndi) and my children, and how quickly I could prepare them for what we would be facing. Then I sat there and felt like, 'Man, I wasted a lot of time.' You sure look at things differently.

On the first night (we decided) to stick inshore and it really paid dividends. The next day we woke up to find ourselves ahead of everyone and it stayed that way.

I wish Trevor the best. But both of us understood that this is a business and changes had to be made.

Here we got a high school student doing something that's really a smart move on his part. I just want to say his smart thinking was able to drive the bus safely, get to a safe stop and take care of the 11 other students on the bus.

I think we've talked about that a lot, about the opportunity and how it's knocking at our door. There's a lot of players who played minor-league hockey for 10-15 years that never made it past the first round.

It has been a really big challenge to keep him caught up, but I've never met anybody that had a better attitude. He smiles more than almost anybody in any one of our other classes.

Our restructuring is part of an ongoing effort to align our business priorities and to increase value for our customers and shareholders.

It doesn't matter, we still finished, broke the record and the boys are very happy.

I think Mark needed the time off from the team to get some things straight. It's great to have him back because we now have two solid goaltenders for the stretch run into the playoffs.

We issued a code green which is for an external situation involving an event in the community. We bring in additional nurses and physicians to handle the situation.

We knew if it was a downhill race we'd be hard to beat. Alfa Romeo was faster for the first 12 hours but once we got the spinnaker on we took off.

We've been that way all year. We've lacked the discipline we've needed to be successful. By the time we started taking bad penalties, (the game) was mostly out of hand.

Special teams have hurt us all season. We need to cut down on the number of penalties we commit and the number of goals we allow when they do have the extra man.

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There was effort all night. It was nice to be in a game where you didn't have to score four or five goals to stay in the game for once.

There's a lot of ways to go in there and steal games. First and foremost is the commitment to play the system and play as hard as they can every shift.

It's fun to be in games now. There were times earlier this season when the other team had a touchdown on us after the first period.

I've had an enjoyable medical practice and an enjoyable family life, but one of the places I feel I've been most helpful was touching kids' lives through athletics,

I am praying to God to provide me a miracle, ... I hope I am approaching things right; God has been good to me for 50 years, and I really can't complain.

I feel better about our lack of success (in Knoxville) there because no one had success there. They only lost two games there all year. It's a tough place to play.

When you're playing with only 13 guys, and is on the power play 12 times, that'll wear you down.

You people are out of your minds. Clemsons Walker Course is not only one of the nicest courses in the Southeast, its one of the nicest collegiate courses in the country. The Tiger Paw 17th hole is amazing!

I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is.