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"Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids."
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"She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself."
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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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"I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches."
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"It's not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team."
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"There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic."
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"Coaching really is an individual philosophy."
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"But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it."
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"If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed."
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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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"There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun."
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"Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby."
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"What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did."
People
"Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle."
Family
"I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'"
People
"First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities."
Community
"Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids."
Coach
"Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done."
Adversity
"All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching."
Life
"Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment."
Time
"Then to have Brett come along and follow in the footsteps, it's so gratifying. I get as much enjoyment out of watching Brett play as I did of entertaining people myself."
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