"All I really want to do is win the Stanley Cup," Wilson says. "Then I would be released. If we...

"All I really want to do is win the Stanley Cup," Wilson says. "Then I would be released. If we won, that’s the last game I’ll ever coach. Honest to God I would have no hesitation. That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do, to have my name on the Cup with my dad and my uncle. That’s honest to God how I feel.

"This is the team I grew up with. Punch Imlach was the last coach who won. That would be just the coolest thing in the world. I’m not about coming back the next year and having everybody pat me on the back, knowing I could be the mayor of Toronto. That doesn’t interest me at all. I could just quietly go away and have all of this satisfaction, knowing that this was something I dreamed about all of my life, this was something I managed to do, and now I can actually breathe."

Someone linked to this Stephen Brunt article yesterday, but I wanted to highlight this quote. There's nothing like quiet satisfaction.

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aw. I kinda want to keep him now

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by Leafer87 on Nov 14, 2010 8:05 PM EST reply actions

Sure are a lot of really sympathetic personal profiles of Wilson and Burke showing up in the newspaper all of sudden, aren’t there?

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by Down Goes Brown on Nov 14, 2010 10:16 PM EST reply actions

If video emerges of them running cockfighting rings in Mexico, I say sign them for life.

by Death_By_Leafs on Nov 15, 2010 5:40 PM EST up reply actions

“If we won, that’s the last game I’ll ever coach… That would be just the coolest thing in the world… having everybody pat me on the back, knowing I could be the mayor of Toronto… I could just quietly go away and have all of this satisfaction…”

Ron Wilson is strange.

by general borschevsky on Nov 15, 2010 11:34 PM EST reply actions

I’m in the first row of the Fire Ron Wilson Bandwagon, but I can really, really sympathize with him here. If you won the Cup as Toronto’s coach, your bucket list is basically over.

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by kidkawartha on Nov 17, 2010 12:45 PM EST up reply actions

I would love nothing more than to have my name on the Stanley Cup either. Doesn’t mean I have the talent to do it.

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by Sergei Puckizin on Nov 16, 2010 2:26 PM EST reply actions

“I’m not about coming back the next year and having everybody pat me on the back, knowing I could be the mayor of Toronto. That doesn’t interest me at all.”

As opposed to Burke who is always on about how the guy who brings a Cup to Toronto will be lionized and idolized, could be the Mayor of Toronto., etc…

by MapleLeafMole on Nov 16, 2010 3:27 PM EST reply actions

I think when Burke talks about that it’s more of a dig at the media, how they hound whoever is in charge of the Leafs relentlessly when they’re losing, but then would flip in an instant and make the GM/coach/whoever a hero if the Leafs ever won.

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by CanadianMaple09 on Nov 17, 2010 10:29 AM EST up reply actions