Quick Hits....

"If we'd had some time, we'd play the Revs. We're here for 10 days. Last year we did it like that, it's great. The players love Boston so they look forward to coming back" – AS Roma President & Chair James Pallotta, a Celtics investor, saying he is open to the Serie A club playing the Revolution in the future. AS Roma is in Boston for the ICC (BOSTON HERALD, 7/26).

"Once the Games start, it will be exciting. And we showed back in 1994 that, even without NHLers, anything can happen" – Former NHLer Todd Hlushko, on the NHL not participating in the '18 PyeongChang Games. Hlushko was part of the '94 Team Canada squad that won silver in Lillehammer (TORONTO SUN, 7/26).

"I definitely had a little bit of extra motivation to kind of do it for all of us who have been fair to the sport and who have played the sport the true way it's meant to be played" – Tennis Player Eugenie Bouchard, during an appearance on Toronto-based CJCL-AM, on her Madrid Open match with Maria Sharapova, who was coming off a drug suspension (Mult., 7/25).