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
confuse face gonna normally offense solid stay time type
We're gonna stay with what we normally do. We're gonna try not to confuse our kids. This is one ballgame; we want to be solid in what we're doing defensively. It's probably the only time we're going to face this type of offense all year.
egos everybody individual message players playing putting win
Part of our message to the players is putting individual egos aside, and playing for the team. At the end of the day, if you win something, it's because everybody was able to sacrifice.
approach instrument interfere move
We have to move them because, where they are now, they would interfere with the instrument approach to the new runway.
building came classroom computers engage kids teaching time using
I noticed, a long time ago, you can engage kids a lot more with a screen. We started using computers in the classroom around 1980, but this class really started when we came to this building about 11 years ago. It was an experiment, and I have been teaching this class (advanced communications) ever since.
developed excited principal relationship visit
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.
articles based couple guess magazine thinking
I guess the thinking is, if this magazine delivers one movie based on one of its articles in the first couple of years, that's a big success.
chance great high tried
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,
drives hurt pulled
I pulled my drives on 17 and 18 and that hurt.
far four frame happen honest sit start time year
I didn't, to be honest with you, have any time frame as far as we wanted to be here after Year 3 or Year 4. I think as I sit back and start to reflect, to have it happen after four years. ... that's pretty quick.
dual goes kyle match meet sure time wants win year
I'm sure Kyle wants to win every match he goes out, but this was a dual meet loss. When the time comes at the end of the year during big-time matches, he'll be ready.
He's more like a superintendent than a principal.
capable confident guys lose match meet winning
I don't like to lose at all, and I know we're capable of winning every match this weekend. I told the guys before the meet that I was confident we'd win every match. That didn't end up happening, but I'm still happy.
grade open third
If I had to open up a new third grade tomorrow, I couldn't do it, ... I don't have the room.