Guy Lafleur quotes
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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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“When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.”
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“You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.”
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“The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.”
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“Individual records are nice to get, but before the season starts, you want to play to win the Stanley Cup!”
-- Guy LafleurSource : "Guy Lafleur: The Last of the Great Habs Skaters". thehockeywriters.com. November 10, 2017.
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“It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.”
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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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“After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two.”
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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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“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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“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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“The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in.”
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“I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.”
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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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“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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“Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.”
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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.”
-- Guy Lafleur
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