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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."

Work, Driving, Forget, Parents

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

Family, Life, Night

"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."

Leadership, Leader, Being, Years

"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."

Travel, Play

"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."

Family, First

"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."

Family, Money

"The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in."

Money,

"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."

Achievement, End, Old, Want, Years

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

Sports, Play

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

Old, Parents, Years

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"The reward of a thing well done is having done it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Achievement, Reward

"Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness."

Abdul Kalam, Indian Statesman

Achievement, Happiness, Running

"We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges."

Barack Obama, American President

Achievement, People

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."

Henry Ford, American Businessman

Achievement, Mistake, May

"Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

Achievement,

"The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."

Aesop, Greek Author

Achievement, Imagination, Success, Act, Kindness

"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth."

Aesop, Greek Author

Achievement, Poor, Worth

"If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying."

Irving Babbitt, American Critic

Achievement,

"Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement."

Max Beckmann, German Artist

Achievement, Painting

"The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

Achievement, Character, Discipline, Goal