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"After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two."
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"It's nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it's kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause."

"Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way."

"That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight."

"Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL."

"The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike."

"Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried."

"I would compare that to when I first started with the Montreal Canadiens; it was a big family then, where the guys really stuck together and worked like a unit. But when I came back in '88, it was not like that anymore."

"I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain my confidence, maybe the most important thing. I have learned a lot to relax. I know what I can do now, and I do it."
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