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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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Charlotte Eriksson

"This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen."

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"I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"But I was still hoping to be able to coach and teach."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I think that teaching coaches are the norm now."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"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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Charlotte Eriksson

"If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I don't want to be a Major League coach."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it."

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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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"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 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."
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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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"Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it."
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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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