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

Attitude, Day, Will

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

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

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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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"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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"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 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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