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"I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt."
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"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

"I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman."

"But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit."

"I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen."

"The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it."

"And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane."
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"But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings."


"Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster."


"I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing."


"With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue."


"They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests."


"I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea."


"When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years."
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