Adam Burish Quotations

We've seen how hard they play. They compete so hard, they're up and down the ice, they skate well and they're physical. If we can match their intensity and play as hard as they do, that gives us a chance to be successful.

One more to go. We came here to win a championship.

One more left. We want to win a championship. That's what we came here to do. We didn't come here just to enjoy the atmosphere.

One more (game) left to win a championship. We didn't come here to enjoy the atmosphere and see the Miller Brewer Company.

I always wanted to play for the Badgers, I always wanted to be a captain and I always wanted to win a national championship. We accomplished all of those.

I feel like I can do anything right now. I can probably jump off and I can fly.

He doesn't say anything. He just smiles at them, laughs and lines back up.

When he plays well, they play harder in front of him. Obviously then, getting an early goal is going to be key for us.

Guys were saying, 'Two more left, two more to go. We want more. This group thinks it deserves more. The attitude is let's do whatever it takes to get this thing done.

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.

Tommy scored our first goal our freshman year in our first game and now he scores the last one, so pretty neat for him. But what an unbelievable script. To do it right in front of these people, too, in front of this crowd, I'm just beside myself.

Tommy has that knack for finding a soft area in the slot. Same spot he missed from earlier, but he hit it that time.

Yale had won one game all year and they came in and they dominated us. We had to scramble in the last couple of minutes just to tie it up, 1-1. It's embarrassing. The fans don't deserve to have to see that, and for the work that we put in as a group, that's embarrassing to us. That sticks in the back of our heads - I know it sticks in my head.

The promise was I was going to do a Lambeau Leap into the glass, but I got so wrapped up in the moment, I didn't know what I was doing out there.

To win the league is probably over. This is about as disappointed as I think I've been maybe in my four years.

We ask him about, what do you guys say in the dressing room, what was the focus like, and then you ask what was the party like afterwards?

To score a goal early always helps, especially in a big game like this, to settle guys down.

We wanted to pressure them and we did. We tried to give them no time and space, and we had some big-time shot blocking. That was a back-breaker.

To me, he has been the best player all year. Will it hurt him getting injured? I don't know, but as far as I'm concerned his statistics speak for themselves. In his position, he has blown everybody away. He's as deserving as anybody in the country, I think.

We had a great relationship in Green Bay, but now it's closer. We're 10 times closer than we were in Green Bay. We're able to relate more personably. We're able to talk more on a personal level. But in Green Bay, it was mostly about hockey.

We had talked about it -- how cool it would be. It was a special moment.

We feel like with our skill set and with the way we play, put your best line out there against us and we'll see what happens. We have fun with that.

At the start of every practice, we skated around the ice and passed back and forth to (one another's) partner. It was pretty basic and pretty monotonous after a while, but it kind of gives you the idea that, hey, back to square one.

I've been talking about how awesome it was when they won. Madison, just everywhere in this state, went crazy. Everyone was talking about Badger hockey.

Coach won't give us the guy's e-mail address.

The boys will win another one. I think the guys are going to be the first ones to win three (in a row).

They talk their trash, they come out there and they back it up. They're in your face the whole game. They don't back off for one second. They're tough, they're physical, they have skill. I can tell right now why that team's won two national championships.

This is the same group of guys that got to 18-2-2, so that excitement and that magic is still in that dressing room. The feeling we have now is, 'Hey, we're back to where we were, if not better, the way we've been playing.' To still be able to score goals while at the same time not allowing these guys to score anything, you feel awesome.

This is the ultimate stage in college hockey and we're excited. I don't feel any pressure. I don't think these guys feel any extra pressure, it's more of an excitement. We've been saying we couldn't wait for this time to come.

They're going to support us and that place is going to be packed every night, I'm sure of it. They're going to be loud, they're going to be screaming. It's going to be a mini-Kohl Center feeling that we're going to have.

It's just as big a mental battle as physical. You just keep telling yourself, 'I'm not tired. I'm not tired.

It's just as much a mental battle as it is physically, too. You got to tell yourself, 'I'm not tired. I'm not tired.' 'It's easy to quit here, it's easy to quit, but we're not quitting,' we said in the dressing room.

It's a huge emotional lift for this group (to score first). In the locker room, that's what the guys always say, 'Let's get that first goal, let's jump on them early.' It takes the pressure off. You allow yourself to relax a little bit knowing you got that first one.

It's going to be wild. I'm anticipating it will be the loudest crowd I've ever been around. I know the Green Bay people. As soon as you put a couple beers in them, they're wild. They love their sports, they love to cheer, they love to scream. It's going to be a rowdy atmosphere.

Every night, the last three games he's played, the onus has kind of been on the guys up front. We haven't scored enough goals to give him that support, and we also haven't done our part defensively.

That first year was the toughest year of hockey I'd ever been through.

It was mentioned quickly in our meeting last night. But it was more about us. Just what we needed to do, what we needed to focus on to be successful.

It was outstanding. We knew by being in our back yard here in Milwaukee that the crowd was going to be nuts.

It was outstanding. There'd be a dead point in the game, and all of a sudden, they'd start clapping. It's a great boost.

It was good to get to see her. She came down on the ice and we got our picture taken together. It's something we can celebrate the rest of our lives.

The last couple weeks here, guys have been excited. Guys have been rejuvenated. They want to practice. They want to be around each other. You can't ask for anything more this time of year.

I'm not nervous, I'm not scared, I'm not worried about it being my last game. I'm excited, I want to put that jersey on for one last time ... and take it off one last time as a champion.

I lay awake in bed at night, thinking about how it will feel. How great it will feel to win it.

I hope it's snowing. I think that will be cool for some reason. If there was some crazy snowstorm, it would make the story that much greater that we played a game out there at Lambeau Field with it snowing. It would be like a Packer game then.

If you take some time to look back and see where we've been and what we've been through, to bring this program back to a No. 1 seed overall in the country is pretty special.

Being a champion can become a habit. So let's establish that thing and see what it feels like to become a champion. Let's really put our nose to the grindstone, let's work at this and let's really put a lot of energy into winning this tournament.

Being on that side, I know what they were going through. It's frustrating.

I can see the whole world up here right now.

You could make the puck white, and we'd still have fun playing out there. So, whatever the situations are, we're going to have fun with it, and it's going to be a special, special game.

A kid that big takes up a ton of the net.

The guys in the dressing room feel as good as they have all year. The confidence is there and we feel we deserve to be here. And we're 60 minutes away from a championship. And if we do all those little things, we give ourselves a good chance. We're obviously playing for the biggest title in hockey. We're excited and we're looking forward to it.

The guys are excited. We know it's going to be a red-and-white filled building. People are going to be screaming for Wisconsin, so it's going to be an exciting atmosphere.