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Mark Messier

"Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach."

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"Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach."

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Amber Hurdle

"The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality."

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Amber Hurdle

"I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament."

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Amber Hurdle

"Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros."

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Amber Hurdle

"She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself."

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Amber Hurdle

"When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement."

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Amber Hurdle

"I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players' bodies can develop better than their skills."

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Amber Hurdle

"I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches."

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Amber Hurdle

"It's not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team."

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Amber Hurdle

"There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame."

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"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."
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"Coaching really is an individual philosophy."
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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 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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"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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"The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself."
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Mark Messier
"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."
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Mark Messier
"You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy."
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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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