Pat Quinn Quotes
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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.
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I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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Do you remember what happened the night of March 23?
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I like a physical team, but one that uses our bodies properly.
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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.
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With the red line removed, ... those two will be able to play with the puck and make surprising passes.
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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.
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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.
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Where it is right now, in spite of everybody saying 'Oh, I love the new game,' I don't love the new game.
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It's a start and hopefully we can build off that. But we're capable of more.
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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.
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Mats was our great leader, Tie played with so much heart, and Tomas has developed into an outstanding all-around player.
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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.
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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.
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We were a little bit better. All in all, it was a good outing, but we've got a lot of work to do.
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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.
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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.
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You can't draw that up on a chalk board. We have to compete better.
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A lot of guys that had muscle pulls were guys that didn't play for a long time.
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He promotes it, that's his history, ... If you're (losing big) and you're allowed to respond that way, there's something wrong.
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In a way, it plays on your heart a little bit.
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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.
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We have kids this year that we want to watch closely.