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"I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning."
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"Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible."

"I was so worried about winning, it was as if I was caught up in my own web."

"I would have loved to have played for Joe Gibbs. Look at his record of winning three Super Bowls."

"They baffle me where they go with the storylines... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show."

"I played Mary Joe Fernandez in the semifinals. She was winning the first set. Second set was very close. I started to play this aggressive game. I think I surprised them."

"Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?"
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"Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career."

"There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there."

"If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard."

"I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams."

"When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it."

"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."

"I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles."
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