60 Quotes by Adam Burish

I think it left an impression, because in (my) four years, he had never done something like that. It probably was never a realistic goal. So, for him to bring that stuff out in front of us all, it kind of made us look at it and be like, 'Wow, we can really do this stuff. This is reality if we buy in here, do all the little things, do all the hard things throughout the season, this is a real thing we can possibly accomplish. It was a real eye-opener.

I said we're national champions together the rest of our lives. No one can take that from us.

I still remember that, the feeling we got. We looked at each other on the bench and said 'Let's go.' We scored one, let's go again. And two shifts later we scored another one. We told coach, get us out there. Ride us. It was a pretty neat feeling.

You just can't put it into words. I know I haven't stopped smiling yet. This whole game was great for the program. Every time you put that sweater on you're representing all the great players that have played here, all the championships that have been won. It is a special place at Wisconsin and the following we have is second to none.

While you want to be remembered as the team that won, you want to have some fun with it and take some time to look around at the whole crowd and the whole situation and take it all in and remember it. That will be the most important thing.

Those guys said our attitude was, we were going to win this junior championship. So now you can put that energy into this - we're going to win this Showdown. That's what we're going to do. Put your mind to it and that's it. No other way about it.

You know how John Madden diagrams where your hips have to be above the green barrier? I think our guys had our hips above it. We were perfect.

Unless you were in that dressing room and around the whole thing, you can't describe it. I don't think I've stopped smiling yet since the game has ended.

To go through that, to build the character that us five seniors have and kind of formed us who we are today, I wouldn't change a thing. I'd have that first year the same way so I could end up just like this year.