93 Quotes by Brad Richards

There are no excuses not to win, this is the playoffs for us. You don't ever want to say it was OK when we lost the game, but I'm not going to beat myself up or question how we've been playing of late. We're going to keep our head high and keep pushing the way we've been going of late.

There are a lot of good teams there and just because you put on a Canadian jersey, it doesn't mean you're going to win. But that's the pride our country has. Those are the expectations and there's bitterness when you don't get it done. There's nothing else we wanted to do except win the gold medal. And a lot of countries, they just want to beat Canada. They played at a whole new level against us.

We're good enough to win anywhere. We had a 2-2 tie in the third and we didn't get it done.

We've never been the eighth seed, obviously. It's going to be different. We're not going to worry about what happened two years ago. We're just going to worry about our team now.

We're just fragile right now. Wish I could explain why.

I can just tell, personally, that we're just not as sharp as we were in the past,

From the start, we made it a priority to play well at home. We emphasized before the season that teams coming in here weren't going to have it easy.

This wasn't pretty but it was a big win.

This was not a step backward. If we play like that every night, we're going to win 80 percent of our games.