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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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"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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"I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me."
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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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"It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly."
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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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"If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving."
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"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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"The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan."
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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."
Coach
"My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game."
Creativity
"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
"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
"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
"You might say I was a little bit more outspoken... I spoke my mind."
Mind
"I hope I can do a better job than Mr. Bettman."
Hope
"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."
People
"If I was to do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing."
Change
"Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby."
Pressure
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