Saku Quotes

You play eight games in 12 days, and the one thing that's realistic is we're not as deep as the other top 3-4 countries. It's like the chance of a lifetime. - Saku Koivu

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening. - Daisaku Ikeda

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening. - Daisaku Ikeda

You know it's going to be a great atmosphere, the fans are going to be really crazy, there's no doubt about that. Hopefully we can get that energy there that we need, but sometimes there's a chance that you want to do too much so I think we've got to still realize there's a long way to go and what we're doing right now well, to keep doing those things and then just go and fight for a win. - Saku Koivu

You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term. - Saku Koivu

Yields aren't high enough to entice investors. I see little reason to buy bonds as stocks are looking bullish and the economy is on a recovery track. - Yuuki Sakurai

With the worsening deflator, it's difficult to justify a policy shift in March, and that made some people buy back bonds. The report shows that deflationary conditions are slow to improve, even though the nation is keeping up a good pace of growth. - Masato Fukasaku

With love and patience, nothing is impossible. - Daisaku Ikeda

Whenever you play against them, it's a game that you don't want to lose. For the fans back in Finland, I think it's the most hated country when you talk about hockey and that's going to be a wild game (tomorrow). - Saku Koivu

When you lose like this, by one goal, all the emotions that you build up and build up are gone, and it's an extremely empty, disappointing feeling. Maybe mentally we were too careful. When we had chances to apply pressure, we didn't. We wanted to protect our net, and we didn't play as loose as we did earlier. - Saku Koivu