We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.


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If you can make money with your talents, why not?
STEVE PREFONTAINE
I knew I had to show everybody that I could excel at something. But I didn't know what.
STEVE PREFONTAINE
It doesn't feel that good when you're ahead the whole way.
STEVE PREFONTAINE
If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself. But if it's a slo...
STEVE PREFONTAINE
This is my last year at Oregon, and it means a lot to me. The people have been great to me up there,...
STEVE PREFONTAINE
If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 me...
STEVE PREFONTAINE
Nobody likes tainted victories.
STEVE PREFONTAINE
No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
STEVE PREFONTAINE
What I want is to be number one.
STEVE PREFONTAINE
Every once in a while I think, 'What am I doing out here running, busting myself up? Life could ...
STEVE PREFONTAINE
Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took o...
STEVE PREFONTAINE
Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of thi...
STEVE PREFONTAINE
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable ...
STEVE PREFONTAINE
When people go to a track meet, they're looking for something, a world record, something that ha...
STEVE PREFONTAINE
I have a positive mental attitude, and I think I'm divine, but I also think it takes a heck of a...
STEVE PREFONTAINE
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perf...
STEVE PREFONTAINE
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something bea...
STEVE PREFONTAINE
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish...
STEVE PREFONTAINE
To hell with love of country - I compete for myself.
STEVE PREFONTAINE
I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one ...
STEVE PREFONTAINE
It's not who's the best - it's who can take the most pain.
STEVE PREFONTAINE
Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back t...
STEVE PREFONTAINE
In January 2013, one could buy a Bitcoin for about $13. By late November, one Bitcoin would have set...
STEVE HANKE
In 2008, Bitcoin was mysteriously introduced to the world in an obscure, technical paper written und...
STEVE HANKE
Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and ch...
STEVE JURVETSON
Birthplace of Obama: Oahu. Birthplace of Obama's budget policies: Neverland.
STEVE BREEN
White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black ...
STEVE ERICKSON
I don't text, I don't have a Blackberry. Literally, I just have a cell phone that I haven...
STEVE CARELL
Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate...
STEVE NASH
We've been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we've been kicking it all over the shop,...
STEVE NASH
Since I was first nominated to serve as Treasury Secretary, I have been maligned as taking advantage...
STEVE MNUCHIN
When you play with Kobe Bryant, the ball is gonna be with him most of the time, which is understanda...
STEVE NASH
We are meant to be one. And only after we realize that amazing truth can we find what we need – tr...
STEVE GOODIER
I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into ...
STEVE WOZNIAK
There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck t...
STEVE SABOL
It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also ...
STEVE WOZNIAK
[I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how eve...
STEVE TOLTZ
People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces...
STEVE TOLTZ
I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonde...
STEVE JOBS
September 11… I will never forget feeling scared and vulnerable… I will never forget feeling the...
STEVE MARABOLI
I work in film, TV, commercials and do live PR stunts for companies. A lot of my time is spent readi...
STEVE TRUGLIA
We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I...
STEVE EARLE
I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, th...
STEVE BALLMER
Who makes decisions for families across America? Should it be a family with their doctor, or should ...
STEVE SCALISE
I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me i...
STEVE FINLEY
I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy...
STEVE WOZNIAK