Pat Quinn Quotations

I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.

I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.

I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.

Where it is right now, in spite of everybody saying 'Oh, I love the new game,' I don't love the new game,

With the red line removed, ... those two will be able to play with the puck and make surprising passes.

The eyeball itself is fine. There's damage to the surrounding areas, but they weren't able to report if there is serious damage. I don't know what the time frame is for him to play again. I would bet there is significant swelling.

One of the silly ones, in my opinion, is the automatic (penalty) for flipping the puck inadvertently up in the stands. We all know, and so do the officials, when it's intentional, so call the intentional ones.

I don't know Eddie that well, but he has a great work ethic and that's why he's been in the game as long as he has.

He had lots of power-play time and it wasn't going for him. Maybe he was pressing, maybe the time away left some edge off his game and he might be ready to try again.

He's gone home to deal with some family matters,

He did fan on the one, there's no question about that. But he didn't have much of a team in front of him.

I think we're going to have a lot of different looks,

I think they are pushing each other right now and it has helped them. I don't know if I'll play them together when the season starts, but right now in the exhibition games, they've been getting better and better.

Mats was our great leader, Tie played with so much heart, and Tomas has developed into an outstanding all-around player.

I was proud of how our guys bounced back. It would be easy to accept what was going on. We were up earlier in the game as well and gave it up. We'll just have to find a way to play better.

I was proud of how our guys bounced back,

You just cannot play that way. We cannot expect our goalie to keep winning games for us.

We had a lot of guys who wanted to play easy.

Time is our enemy here. This small amount of time that we have here this week is the start of putting this team together. These guys have to find a way to come together and it starts here.

We have kids this year that we want to watch closely,

We were a little bit better. All in all, it was a good outing, but we've got a lot of work to do.

We don't want to get into a spot with Steve where we're going to cost him an opportunity someplace. But he is still determined that he is going to play on this hockey club. We're open to that too. It has a lot to do with the respect we have for him as a player and an individual.

We thought about switching every day and creating new lines but then we decided not to, ... The whole idea here was the introduction of some concepts of play. Rather then have them worrying about adjusting to new guys every day, we wanted them to concentrate and focus on trying to absorb the system we want to play.

You can't draw that up on a chalk board. We have to compete better.

During the year we'll start thinking about the dream lines, ... We seemed to have come up with some good lines here although after two games in 2002 we switched them all around.

Do you remember what happened the night of March 23?

Are we going to like it? I'm not sure, ... I don't like some of the games I'm seeing now.

A lot of guys that had muscle pulls were guys that didn't play for a long time,

This is the part of training camp where you want to make decisions (based on) 5-on-5, but after something like that, it's hard to do. That was painful. I never had a look at (John) Pohl.

It's a start and hopefully we can build off that. But we're capable of more.

It was talked about, it was planned and now was the time to go.

It's the normal routine for me. We'll meet with the players and review the season. That's the immediate future.

Eddie got good at the right time - he was awesome. They (the Bruins) were, by far, the better team.

They were trying to help the players adjust with a word of warning,

I like a physical team, but one that uses our bodies properly

In a way, it plays on your heart a little bit,

I'm not trying to make the roster now,

In two games (the opposition) has scored three tap-in goals. That's bad play on our part away from the puck.

Clearly, I've had a wonderful trip in this business,

But it's a fact that guaranteed contracts set up the roster you're going to have. If (kids) do make it, the decision becomes whether you eat one of those big contracts.

I don't think we competed hard enough on the road this year. There were some games where we were in them and we let them go because we didn't know how to compete.

He's making a good case for himself, no question.

I believed in our group this past season, as well. While we did not achieve what we needed to, this group worked to deal with various obstacles, and I am proud of their efforts - especially their work in recent weeks (finished on 9-1-2 run) when they overcame significant odds to almost attain a playoff berth after we dug a huge hole for ourselves.

He promotes it, that's his history, ... If you're (losing big) and you're allowed to respond that way, there's something wrong.