13 Quotes by Dean Lombardi

In order to see the world clearly, you must clean the windows of perception. The only problem is, our society doesn't do windows.

Every good army needs a couple of criminals.

First of all, it's a curse. Voodoo. As soon as a guy gets put on the cover of The Hockey News, it's like Sports Illustrated. He goes right into the tank.

I've always felt we weren't physical enough on the back line. Now there's a no - parking sign in front of our net.

At the end of each year I make a list of my mistakes and it's pretty friggin long.

First off, I?m a builder. And I see the foundation put in place by (recently fired Kings G.M.) Dave Taylor. People sometimes come in and make things look as bad as possible to paint themselves as heroes. But, that?s not the case here.

So much of the challenge is to find what is good, and make it better.

Everyone has to be singing from the same hymn book.

I want to know what happened this season. How can a team fall off the map like this? It's easy to pin it on the coaches, but the players have to face responsibility, too. They brought in a different coach and that didn't work.