TITLE - Sledge Hockey Athletes prepare for 2010 WInter Games - Etobicoke, Ontario
TITLE - Paul Rosen - Sledge Hockey Athlete, 2010 Paralympic Winter Games
"To me, hockey is the greatest game in the world and Canada's the greatest country in the world. My name is Paul Rosen - I'm the goaltender for the Canadian Sledge Hockey team, and I'm going to Vancouver to defend my team's gold medal from Torino in 2006.""
"The easiest way to describe Sledge Hockey - it's ice hockey for the disabled. It's pretty well the same game other than the fact that everybody has a disability from the waste down. Each player has two sticks with laser-cut spikes on the end of them. It's hockey - that's the bottom line - it's hockey, it's an incredible game."
"There's times when I'm in the dressing room and I feel this 50 year-old body, and it is the young guys on our team that have the belief and the faith in me that I can still play this game at that level."
TITLE - Adam Dixon, Derek Whitson and Gregory Westlake - Sledge Hockey Athletes, 2010 Paralympic Games (voice heard is that of Gregory Westlake)
"I think that as a team we've progressed more than any other team in the past four years. We've developed players really well and I'm excited to see all that come to fruition."
"I think what I like about playing with Paul is that when push comes to shove and it's game time, he's ready to go. You see that fire in Paul's eyes and very few players have that ability to take it up when they need to, and Paul definitely has that."
Paul Rosen - Sledge Hockey Athlete, 2010 Paralympic Winter Games
"We're very fortunate in Ontario, and a lot of other countries don't have that government support - don't have that Quest For Gold - it gives up an opportunity to train."
"To play for my county - I wouldn't trade it for absolutely anything. We're going into these games in Vancouver/Whistler prepared to win a gold medal. That's it - that's the bottom line."
TITLE - For more information visit: ontario.ca/olympicgames2010