Steve Yzerman Quotes

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• As long as I could remember, since I was 5 years old, I watched the Stanley Cup. I stayed up, made a point of watching…
• I mean, the best thing for my knee, for anyone's knee, is to never play again and retire. But I'm not going to do that.
• I consider the Detroit Red Wings one of the greatest franchises in any sport. For a player to come in and play, it's so special…
• We’re stuck in the middle and need to decide what kind of sport do we want to be. Either anything goes and we accept the…
• It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know…
• There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it…
• The 70's hair with the long on the sides, just doesn't look good coming down the sides of the helmet.
• We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games.
• I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.
• It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of…
• One of the advantages, one of the special things, about playing in Detroit or Montreal is guys like Gordie Howe walk in the room. I…
• I don't know that I'd agree I was our best player.
• And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.
• Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.
• I don't know if I've ever had a memorable body check. It's not really part of my game.
• I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it.
• I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.
• I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.
• It's true that in Canada, we pride ourselves on the game, and we like to think we're the dominant hockey nation in the world.
• I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.

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