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" It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game. "
Mark Messier
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" Well, my transition into being a captain was easy. "
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" I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times. "
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" I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year. "
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" Coaching really is an individual philosophy. "
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" Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach. "
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" But I just think as a captain, everybody's different. "
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" I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant. "
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" My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with. "
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" Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it. "
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" The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself. "
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" I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey. "
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" You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy. "
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" There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there. "
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" When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it. "
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" I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well. "
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" I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams. "
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" I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule. "
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" As a captain, I think it's important that the players really know who you are and what you stand for, what your beliefs are, and to be consistent in those if things are going good or things are going bad. "
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" When Wayne was traded, I became captain. For me it really wasn't anything - I didn't do anything or I didn't feel I had to do anything different than what I had been doing all along. "
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" We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time. "
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" I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles. "
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" I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually. "
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" Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career. "
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