Gary Roberts Quotations

The potential here is significant. The NCAA is at some risk.

We started our careers together and we wanted to finish our careers together. And going to Florida gives us that opportunity.

We're making some real progress. We didn't have our best game but we battled hard and found a way to win, and that's what we need to do down the stretch.

When the salary cap came in we realized we might be the odd men out,

Obviously we played all right. We lost a one-goal game in double-overtime.

Nearly all our blokes are locals, but a lot of them work out of town during the week,

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

For sure it was kind of embarrassing to have three wins on the road halfway through the season. There's no way we can go the way we have on the road and expect to be close to a playoff spot. ... Tonight was huge for us.

Having two more games against Tampa, that's the team we're going to have to focus on. Just worry about our wins, our games, and see what we get.

He definitely sparked the team. That's why (fighting) still needs to be part of the game.

Joe did a great job getting position in front of the net. I threw it in front and he's got pretty good hands, so he was able to deflect it in.

It happened pretty quickly. We're sitting up here for a hockey game and they're going through a hurricane. If we'd known ahead of time it was going to be that bad we'd have tried to get everybody out of there.

I think the smartest thing they've done is invest in youth speedway. They run the youth races every week. They've helped the kids, encouraged the kids and they've made a big deal out of it. Now there's about a dozen Division I riders that have gone through that youth program.

I saw that down here about three days ago and I thought it must be Ithaca, New York (where Nieuwendyk attended Cornell). It must be the granolas in Ithaca that have made him that way.

Our guys battled hard and beat a team that won the Stanley Cup (in 2004). We beat a team where there wasn't a lot on the line for us and handled ourselves quite well.

We've made strides. We still have a long way to go but we are getting better.

We made it exciting for the fans, that's for sure. But we don't want to do that very often.

Unfortunately the service will be restricted to the regular parishioners and others who may attend from time to time,

We're not used to playing that way, most of us. It's going to take some time.

We'll take a little extra time this time around to make sure it's 100 percent.

fiddling around right now to try and find a reason why I keep injuring my left groin.

This was fun; no doubt about it. We haven't had too many nights like this.

You have an organization running an entire industry that is totally dependent upon one event in one men's sport.

We were looking at the camp roster during our (team) meeting (the other) night, Joe and I, and I didn't see many guys (born) in the 1960s. There were some '80s, some '85s. You realize how much older you are, but we're definitely excited to be here and be part of this team.

We wished it would have been a more meaningful game. We were looking at that game a long time ago wondering if it would mean something. Now it looks like it's going to mean ninth, 10th, 11th place, unfortunately.

The puck drops, you got to play your game. It's still tough playing against your buddies, guys that you went to war with those years here in Toronto. It was a tough game for me to play. I'm happy it's over. I'm not happy we lost.

We're different guys, for sure. I'm a little more bullheaded, probably, and have to be because of the style of game I play. My game's a little different than Joe's. Joe is a real good face-off man and a good shot. Me, I spend a little more time in the traffic banging bodies and creating a little bit of havoc.

It would be nice of their manager Tommy Taylor to ring us rather than go to the media, especially when it is a contracted player. Tommy should know better.

I wanted to get one out of the way.

Teams don't like to invoke those clauses. The only effort at that in my modern memory was shot down on a fairly technical procedural basis.

The most important part of your trade is your skates, ... If you're skates don't feel good then you're in absolute trouble.

You never know what he's going to do on the field. Nobody does. And you can't get boo out of him.

They have both been excellent for us since Christmas. They give us an extra dimension and make us a really dangerous counter-attacking side.

There were three world champions during the 1990s that came from America. The U.S. riders do very well in Europe and there's probably as many followers of Fast Fridays outside of this country than there are in this country.

It was a very stressful time for all of us. We were sitting up here in Pittsburgh for a hockey game, and they were going through a hurricane.

It's the last undeveloped westerly piece in Plymouth Township. Even with the tax breaks, we've been putting land back on the tax rolls.

It's the number one track in the country, undoubtedly. Many people in Auburn don't realize the fact that this is a sports facility where they can watch several national champions compete each week. Fast Fridays is a major track for this sport. I send out results each week to people from all over the world.

It's been a long time (since) even a competitive practice for me. It's good to get the rust off.

It's really fun to be back out playing again. It's been a long layoff for everybody. Old or young, I think it's real exciting for everybody to get back and get back in that routine of being a hockey player.

It's something I'm not used to, for sure, it's a different feeling. There's no doubt it's been tough. Hopefully next year when we're fighting for a better position in the standings, we'll think about how we felt the last few weeks and that will encourage us to be a little better.

Everyone knows New Orleans was a marginal major league market. More and more, the NFL has come to rely on corporate dollars and New Orleans doesn't have a very large corporate base.

Tampa is the team we have to focus on. They're a great team and they are not going to give us anything. We have a day off Sunday an we'll recharge the batteries for a big game Monday night.

It was nice to see some pucks go into the net, because we've been struggling offensively. I'm just trying to get the puck at the net, and it's been a struggle for me this year.

I've got a lot of good buddies (with the Leafs) and they treated me really well, so I've got nothing bad to say about the (Toronto) organization. I really enjoyed my time, it was a special place to play. I'm sorry that I'm not there, but we're real excited about the new challenge here.

Not a big screamer, spoke when he knew he needed to. It's one of those things where when you're heard too often, people stop listening.

It's very tough, believe me. People say, 'Oh, you're getting paid big bucks, you just need to go play.' But you don't understand this team has been on an emotional high for the last month.

They can say that it's economics and academics all they want. But the reality is that no matter how they handle our jobs, there will be no cost savings.

I know the way I have to play to be successful. I'll try not to take too many dumb ones, but I have to play on the edge a little bit to be successful.

In some ways, the state might be better off without the Saints. They are expensive, and the building remains a magnet for bringing people and events into the city.

I gave Dale permission to speak to them because it was an opportunity for him to go full-time, but the offer Grays made was totally unacceptable to us. From our point of view, they were trying to pinch him on extremely cheap terms.

It has definitely been longer than I thought it would be. But I've got to make sure I come back for a long time and not one or two games.

I just know we're ecstatic about the opportunity to come down with probably a younger group of guys than we had in Toronto and a great goaltender in Luongo. We feel we can make an impact and make the Florida Panthers a better hockey team.

He's our best penalty killer. We were fortunate to get the win.

I don't know if he has ever made a 39-year-old faster, but you better start coming up with some ideas,

If he sees a little turtle walking across the street, he'll stop in the middle of the road, get out, pick the turtle up and help it across the road,

If everybody buys into the system and is disciplined, then that's going to give us much more chance of winning some hockey games.

I appreciate it a lot more than the last time I was here. After what I've been through with my injuries, I feel very fortunate to get this opportunity.

The first 10 minutes of the third, we didn't have a scoring chance.