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"Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done."
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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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"Adversity introduces a man to himself."
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"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
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"(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then."
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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."
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"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself."
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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
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"If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future."
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"In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening."
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"You might say I was a little bit more outspoken... I spoke my mind."
Mind
"What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did."
People
"All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching."
Life
"I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'"
People
"Then to have Brett come along and follow in the footsteps, it's so gratifying. I get as much enjoyment out of watching Brett play as I did of entertaining people myself."
People
"My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game."
Creativity
"Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids."
Coach
"Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle."
Family
"I hope I can do a better job than Mr. Bettman."
Hope
"Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby."
Pressure
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