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    People on the streets are ready for hockey.

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    People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

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    Personally I don't believe in standing on the ice, or jamming the blueline, waiting. I have always told my players that hockey has to be played on your toes.

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    Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong; that hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound gods.

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    Pizza! Hockey! Destroy!" -Cal

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    Play every game as if it's your last one

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    Playing goal is like being shot at.

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    Potential is synonymous with getting your ass kicked.

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    Ranger fans are the rudest and they're proud of it, I'm sure.

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    Probably not. Their depth and our play right now...it doesn't look too good.

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    Quit while there is still time - at about 12 or 13 years of age!

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    Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the 1980 Olympics. Jack Nicklaus cannot shoot 65 to win the Masters at age forty-six. Nothing else comes immediately to mind.

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    Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

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    Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.

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    So here I am running at guys who aren't taller than 5-foot-8, and I'm the one who tears up his knee.

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    Some guys are more worried about their Vegas trip at the end of the season than playing the games, than playing every minute of the games. Quite frankly, I don't care about your Vegas trip right now.

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    Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor.

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    Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry.

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    Right now I'm scoring goals and I'm the king of the world. And a couple weeks ago I was almost in the toilet. So maybe you just forget to flush me.

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    Rocket had that mean look on, every game we played. He was 100 percent hockey. He could hate with the best of them.

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    Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

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    Some guys score and some guys don't. We got a lot that don't.

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    Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.

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    Sources also confirm that there is no one left in Canada who can remember when hockey was a simple game, played for fun.

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    Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.

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    Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

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    Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work.

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    Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds ahead, or two hundredths of a second, or two days. Napoleon on an eighteenth century battlefield had something more like a two-day advantage. Wayne Gretzky in a hockey game was probably a second ahead of everyone else on the ice.

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    Sure, Daniel wears number 22 and Henrik number 33.

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    The goal is too small and the goalies are too big.

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    That I walk around calling people 'dummy' and 'hockey puck'. I do have a different life apart from being sarcastic on stage. I might kibitz around with my friends, but I'm nothing like the person who does stand up. Nothing like that.

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    That's great. I'm 100 years old and people are still interested.

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    The atmosphere was even greater than in Winnipeg last year. The place was almost packed for warm-ups, which was fun for us. You look at the group and you get your salute and you get the standing ovation and that means a lot to us.

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    The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that passion is the most important part. It's not skills or talent or any of that stuff.

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    The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.

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    Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey - let's face it, true Canadian - fan. I've always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I'm not crazy about hockey - but love it!

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    That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my (expletive) clothes.

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    The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

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    The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: At some point, a pit bull does stop whining.

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    The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. ... That's a pretty scary thought.

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    The first thing I would do when I saw Bobby coming down at me was to say a little prayer if I had time. I'm sure I wasn't the only goalie who did that.

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    The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.

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    The guillotine has to fall somewhere when the team under-produces, and more times than not it's fallen on me.

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    The great thing about hockey players is that they are able to separate the on-ice from the off-ice and not let the latter distract them.

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    Their toys are alive and can sometimes come to their aid, or get lost and Olie has to find them. They go to other planets. They go to the ice cream planet.

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    The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

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    The kid looks good in his first game.

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    The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

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    The kids just aren't the same today.

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    The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.