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"Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted."
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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
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"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
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"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."
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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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"The past is but the past of a beginning."
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"To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending."
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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print."
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"The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end."
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"It's up to the community now to decide if they want to keep this team."
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"Everybody I talked to - from my friends to my family and some of the players - really gave me a lot of support from the start. And that certainly made me feel good about trying to come back and be one of the best again."
Friendship

"Well, I think just a desire to come back and be a part of the game again."
Desire

"My body's feeling it a little bit. But one good thing, my back is in good shape, and that's my main concern. I know that my legs are going to take awhile to get back to where I was a few years ago, but as long as my back is solid, I feel that I can play many years."
Body

"One thing I hate is people screaming at me. If you want me to do something, talk to me."
People

"Every day is a great day for hockey."
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"Of course, my family has been a big reason for me to come back, especially my son who loves the game of hockey - he was a big reason for me coming back."
Family

"He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played."
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"I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh."
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"I'm only 35, and I felt that the time was right to try to come back and have a chance for him to see me play."
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