Maria Rooth Quotations

We've seen 'Miracle' so many times. We said (Thursday) we were going to make a new miracle.

I am so proud of this team and to be in the gold medal game. This team has a big heart. We played our hearts out. It is awesome.

I felt confident that we would win because we had Kim and they had all the pressure. I always thought a bigger heart could beat better talent, and I think today proved it.

I always thought the bigger heart will always beat talent, and today proved it.

We've been very close with the Americans before. The one thing that set us apart was, deep down, we didn't believe we could win. Tonight we believed it.

We had to stay positive. It's the chance of our life. And knowing we had Kim in goal ... we knew she was going to stop most of the pucks and we just had to put some in.

We talked last night and asked everybody to try to feel what it would feel like to win. We wanted everybody to see that picture. ... The one thing different in the past was deep down, we didn't believe we could beat them. We felt we could this time.

We just stayed positive. This is the chance of our lives. We just went out in the shootout knowing that we had Kim in net. She's going to stop most of the pucks, and hopefully, we can put some in, too.

I've always thought a bigger heart will always beat talent.

There was so much ice in front of the net, I wanted to shoot. I didn't want to deke because I thought the puck would stop.

They're probably going to have 80 per cent of the puck. We're just going to take the chances that we get.

It was the chance of our lives and, knowing we had Kim in goal, we knew she would stop all the pucks.

I'm so proud of this team. We couldn't have done it without everyone on this team and I'm just so proud and happy to be in the gold-medal game. ... Big heart, that's why we won. We have a huge heart.

I felt we were going to win because we had Kim and they had all of the pressure. We had no pressure at all. We could go out and have fun.