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"Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach."
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"How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?"
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"And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you."
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"You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player."
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"My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues."
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"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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"Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired."
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"You are only as good as the coach thinks you are."
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"It's difficult to compare coaches. You really can't compare them."
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"She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself."
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"The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches."
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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."
Career
"Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach."
Coach
"I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule."
Creativity
"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."
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."
Trust
"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."
Work
"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."
Time
"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."
Time
"The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself."
Pressure
"I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually."
Time
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