Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson
Ice hockey coach and former NHL forward who won a gold medal in 1980 with the U.S. Olympic hockey team.
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth22 September 1957
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He wasn't a guy who had too many words for you. He expected you to go out and play hard. If you didn't, he wouldn't yell, he just wouldn't play you.
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He not only made me a better player, he made me a better coach.
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I had great chance to make it. I tried to eke it in there and I just didn't get it started high enough.
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I supported this effort because it was very important to bring a new generation of Arabs to the United States to better understand Americans and to promote closer people-to-people contact between the Middle Eastern countries and us,
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She'll be accepted by Hollywood if she delivers. If she doesn't deliver in a year or two, believe me, it will be yesterday's news.
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Slowly, we're getting healthy. We did a little bit of fundamentals, but we used (the extra day) basically just to heal up.
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At the end of the season, I didn't play as well as I would have liked. I wasn't tired because we don't play every week. I don't know if it was because I was putting too much pressure on me.
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That's an awful lot of money. It would take seven or eight years to make that much money delivering beer.
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I just tried to get it somewhere near the hole. It was a moment that I will never, ever forget. It gave me chills and the best thing about it is that it happened in Southern California. Toshiba will remain special because it was the first place that I won.
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I hope it means a lot to the team. It's the first time in the history of our program that we've won a championship. It's a credit to our players and a credit to the players that have been here in the past. ... It's a nice piece of hardware to have, but the prize at the end of the journey is bigger than that.
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I pulled my drives on 17 and 18 and that hurt.
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I'm even more excited to go because of the relationship I've developed with Principal Wang. I feel like I'm going to visit a friend.
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It was just an amazing experience. To be able to win against the greatest players in the world, in front of all my family and friends, was just really special. I will never forget it.
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It (was) just a matter of each team sort of weathering the storm at different points in the game, ... We were fortunate with about seven or eight minutes to go in the third period they hit the post twice or three times in one shift. So we sort of survived a bullet there and were able to get that goal under five minutes and it gives you a little bit of momentum.