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"25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that."
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"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder."

"Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you."

"In this world, there are instruments to acquire instruments; 'here', there is the instrument to attain the Final Goal (Self Realization)."

"Goal..., let's see this year how far I can reach... and the year which is comming it will be a number above the goal number."

"Think for now.... when you reach where you wanted, think there and there and finally you will be there where you wanted."

"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal."
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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."

"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."

"If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard."

"I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning."

"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."

"I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams."

"I would never say one was more important or more gratifying than the next because there's a tremendous amount of work, as you know, that goes into winning a cup."

"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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