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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I was disappointed about the way we wrestled today. We had five guys in the finals and didn't get it done. We seemed to be satisfied with qualifying for nationals and not defending our title.
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I was as nervous as a cat. We had a really wonderful meal, and before dessert, there was sort of an awkward silence while I got up my nerve.
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If a direct hit came on Cedar Key, it wouldn't be just Cedar Key, it would be the whole area, with major damage down to Citrus County, ... Half of our county would flood under.
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He not only made me a better player, he made me a better coach.
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To do what we have done in four years, yeah, it's a little bit surprising. But at the same (time), if you bring in good players and you bring in kids who are committed not only for the academic standpoint but also committed to becoming better players, things can happen.
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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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Watching it all come together was pretty amazing, I thought. The first three to four minutes, you are kind of like, 'Dude, what are you doing?' and then in the last minute, it all came together. I've heard of finger painting, but only in the first grade. This was just amazing.
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We're real excited about the opportunity this upcoming weekend. The game last night was very intense and certainly nerve-racking.
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We're just really excited to get an opportunity to play for a national championship on Sunday.
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Whether you look at it from the fair chase issue and say it's not fair to be able to take a farmed animal and kill it - we don't call it hunting - whether you disapprove of that or are afraid for the deer population as a whole because of disease or are just concerned about the integrity of our hunting heritage, people better go talk to their legislators.
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