Guy Lafleur Quotes

• When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.

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• I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

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• When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don’t teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.

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

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• 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.

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• The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.

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• The crowd doesn’t give a crap as long as you bring the money in.

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• 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.

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• Play every game as if it is your last one.

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• It’s nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents.

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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.

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• 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.

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• I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everything as a kid to stay in shape – jogging, work on the farm, driving the tractor. I’ll never forget.

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• 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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• I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• After 13 years, I couldn’t accept to be number two.

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• A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers’ it’s a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.

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Guy Lafleur (19)

Birth:	20th September, 1951
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Hockey Player

About

Guy Lafleur is a former Canadian professional ice hockey player who was the first player in the National Hockey League to score 50 goals and 100 points in six straight seasons. Between 1971 and 1991, he played for the Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers and Quebec Nordiques in an NHL career spanning 17 seasons and five Stanley Cup championships.

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