'I don’t have a problem with the discipline of my guys today. I mean we had one guy sent off for trying to do what I asked him to do. I thought our guys maintained their discipline very, very well.' - Nick Conway, Coach USA

'Focus will now shift to the Junior programme for the Pan American and World Cup Qualifier and the Pan Am Cup in Chile in March 2009. That’s the short term. The long term we’re trying to set our sails for the 2016 Olympics.' - Nick Conway, Coach USA

'We have good video of other teams, to go back home and work with. Things that the top level teams do much better, and we need to sharpen up on. In our case it’s finishing at the top of the D. ... So we have a lot of work, and we will go back home and practice, and maybe go back to basics before we get onto the tactical. Back to the basics and get it right!' - Anthony Marcano, Coach Trinidad&Tobago

'It is critically important for Anthony and ourselves that we get opportunity. We’re now able to play New Zealand, Argentina, and Trinidad again………again [laughter]. I think it’s really crucial as I think - as we all do - that this is the best sport in the world and if we’re to develop it and really push it out and increase the performance levels from 16 to 30 where we sit and a number of other teams do, if we’re to get better, we have to be at events like this. Now I see the other side of the argument but in the general perspective of hockey, it’s positive in the performance of the teams. Whoever wins today, whether it be New Zealand or Argentina will be a better side for the experience and will grow exponentially having won this type of event and not having won a fifth-sixth game.' - Nick Conway, Coach USA (on the new Olympic qualifying format)

'It’s in the heat of the game. In a close game and in games like this, things will happen, and that’s part of the game. There were a lot of hard 'no-surrenders', one of our codes.' - Anthony Marcano, Coach Trinidad&Tobago

'We played not so good one more time. We had so many occasions to make attacks. But the pleasure of the sport, and to win like that, I am happy of course.' - Jerome Tran Van, Coach France

'I’m not going to give you a hard luck story because I’ve done that before. I said that to the players, ‘this is our own creating’, we lost this game.' - Dave Passmore, Coach Ireland

'We waited for opportunities to counter-attack as we know Ireland have a very good defence. So if we go to make pressure, always they win the ball!' - Jerome Tran Van, Coach France

'Normally, we have a very good defense, but in this tournament, it was so bad! I was surprised as normally we a have good defense. I don’t know why it was so bad, I said, wake up, wake up, what’s up!!' - Jerome Tran Van, Coach France

'We work in cycles and this is the Olympic cycle over, so we’ll look at the next Olympic cycle which incorporates the World Cup. We worked really hard over the last three years; it was about this tournament and we came close. I think the players need a break now.' - Dave Passmore, Coach Ireland

'I think we’ll get some retirements, and I think some of the other players need rest, and we need to bring on a younger group through to 2012. But we’ll worry about those things when we get home.' - Dave Passmore, Coach Ireland