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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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"I hope I can do a better job than Mr. Bettman."
Hope
"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
"Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby."
Pressure
"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
"If I was to do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing."
Change
"You might say I was a little bit more outspoken... I spoke my mind."
Mind
"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
"All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching."
Life
"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
"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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