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"I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it."
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"I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere."

"I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it."

"From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy."

"Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire."

"I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City."

"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples."

"Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book."
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"It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot."

"It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment."

"There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off."

"I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here."

"We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over."
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