Mario Lemieux Quotes

• When someone screams at me to hurry up, I slow down.

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• When I’m able to see the ice ahead of time when I get the puck, I’m able to make some pretty good plays.

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

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• We feel that, with Sidney, we have a great opportunity over the next few years to put a great team on the ice. We’re prepared to lose some money along the way. Eventually we’re going to need some help.

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• The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career.

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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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• Once I’m at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I’m a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.

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• Oh, I did stop smoking a long time ago.

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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.

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• 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.

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• It’s up to the community now to decide if they want to keep this team.

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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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• I think the game has opened up, and that’s why I decided to come back and try to be a part of it.

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• I think that with a lot of hard work and dedication, I feel that I could be the best in the world. I’m still only 35 years old… I have a fresh start physically and mentally, and I feel that I can achieve my goal to be the best again.

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• I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life.

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• I don’t try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

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• I didn’t speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

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• I didn’t like the way the game was being played.

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• I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.

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• 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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