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I always liked speed.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Speed
Always Liked
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Play every game as if it's your last one
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Inspirational
Motivational
Hockey
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Play every game as if it is your last one.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Game
Every
Last
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You can't replace a guy like Jean Beliveau.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Jean
Replace
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In the NHL, 95 percent of success is confidence.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Nhl
Success Is
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I didn't go to the 12th grade... I stopped at 11.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Grade
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I was a right-winger, but I was all over the ice.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Ice
Over
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After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Numbers
Two
Years
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I was lucky enough to have a hockey career in the NHL.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Hockey
Nhl
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When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Family
Support You
Trouble
Vocabulary Words
You
Supports
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The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Crowds
Giving
Long
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I was not the best student. Thank God I had a lot of hockey talent.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Hockey
Talent
Thank God
God Best Thank God
Student
Thank
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The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Boat
Call Me
Captains
Me Day Will
Captain
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A captain shouldn't be chosen on the amount of goals he's going to score.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Amount
Chosen
Score
Captain
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When you win in Montreal, it's the best place in the world to play hockey.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Hockey
Montreal
Best World Win
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It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Dream
Dad
Montreal
Team
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I've been playing hockey since I was five years old. It's a part of my life.
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Hockey
Life My Life Old
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I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Downtown
Important
Night
Life Family Me
Realized
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I love the game. I want to see creativity. I want to see great goals. I want 'Wow!'
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Wow
Love Great Game
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My night is over only when there are no more photos to take and nothing left to sign.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Photos
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No matter what happens to us in life, we must get back on our feet and continue on the path.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Feet
Path
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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.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Fans
Nhl
Nice
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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.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Hockey
Play
Seasons
Stanley
Stanley Cup
Winning
Cup
Objective
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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 / Ice Hockey Player
Nice
Pregnancy
Years
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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 Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Nice
Play
Winning
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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.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Being A Leader
Leader
Nhl
Years
Me Way Never
Anyway
Captain
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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
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Hard
Hard Work
Trying
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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.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Work
Hard
Go
Afraid
Ahead
Make
Try
Even
Say
Least
Something
Tried
Work Hard
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I went out almost every night with the guys on the team between 1975 and 1981. We were winning in those years. It was fun.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Every Night
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When I was on the ice, I felt like a free man. With flying, it's the same thing. When I'm flying by myself on an afternoon, I feel free.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Afternoon
Flying
Free Man
Ice
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I would like to write my biography sometime. I love to write. I could write for weeks and weeks, maybe say nothing but just for the writing.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Biography
Sometime
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The only time I'm relaxing is when I have the puck and controlling the puck. If I don't have it, I'm getting anxious, and I want to have it.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Anxious
Only Time
Puck
Controlling
Relaxing
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That's the key to win a lot of games: you have to pull the wagon together, and everybody has to give 100 per cent, and that's how you're going to win games.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Games
Together
Cent
Per
Pull
Wagon
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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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Thank You
Careers
Fans
Nice
Followed
Good Cause
Thank
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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.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Travel
Appreciate
Nhl
Player
Teamwork
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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.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Caps
Higher
Salary
Mentally
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Hockey is not a one-man show; it's a team effort. If you don't work as a team - even if one or two guys aren't working - you're not going to win. That's the way it is.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Effort
Hockey
Team
Team Effort
Two
Show
Working
Even
Guys
One Or Two
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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.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Careers
Cups
Hometown
Montreal
Stanley
Stanley Cup
Bringing
Cup
Drafted
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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.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Comeback
Eight
Should Have
Sixty
Years
Chances
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People say that I must get bothered when someone stops me for an autograph or a photo. I'll get bothered when no one asks me. Being asked means people haven't forgotten the time I played.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Bothered
Forgotten
Time Me People
Time Must Me
Autograph
Photo
Stops
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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.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Kids
Jogging
Never Forget
Parent
Farm
Mile
Shape
Tractor
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I really love my family and kid, but first of all, it's my hockey, my career. My family is second, and my fans go third. Sometimes my fans go second, and my family is third. It's turning all the time.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Fans
Hockey
Love Time Family
Turning
Career
Love Family Time
First Of All
Second
Third
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I was impressed all my life. Because of the Montreal Canadiens' past, it means a lot because it was a team I cherished as a kid. It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Impressed
Montreal
All My Life
Cherished
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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.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Big Families
Compare
Guy
Montreal
Stuck
Together
Anymore
Big Family
Came
Guys
Unit
Worked
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I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain my confidence, maybe the most important thing. I have learned a lot to relax. I know what I can do now, and I do it.
Guy Lafleur / Ice Hockey Player
Harder
Relax
Bringing
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Regain
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