Quotes by Mark Messier - Page 1

Coaching really is an individual philosophy.
Mark Messier / Ice Hockey Player
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Coaching
Philosophy
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Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.
Mark Messier / Ice Hockey Player
Captains
Easy
Transition
Captain
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I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.
Mark Messier / Ice Hockey Player
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Havens
Celebrated
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But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.
Mark Messier / Ice Hockey Player
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Different
Thinking
Captain
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When I left here I left everything here. It's time to move on
Mark Messier / Ice Hockey Player
Hockey
Moving
Time To Move On
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The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.
Mark Messier / Ice Hockey Player
Inspirational
Hockey
Pressure
Stress
Myself
Put
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Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.
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Personality
Team
Coach
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Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the action in the face of fear.
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Action
Bravery
Faces
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Biologically, I'm 10. Chronologically, I'm 33. In hockey years, I'm 66.
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Hockey
Years
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It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game.
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Aspect
Games
Want
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You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.
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Belief
Consistent
Philosophy
Beliefs
Remain
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I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant.
Mark Messier / Ice Hockey Player
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Edmonton
Kevin
Wayne
Assistant
Captain
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I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.
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Accomplishment
Individual
Thinking
Accomplishments
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I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.
Mark Messier / Ice Hockey Player
Motivational
Hockey
One On One
Thinking
Always Mind Keep
Battles
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My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.
Mark Messier / Ice Hockey Player
Ceilings
Hard Work
Jersey
People
Work People Hard
Work Hard Work People
Ceiling
Hanging
Symbol
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I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams.
Mark Messier / Ice Hockey Player
Sports
Compare
Stanley
Stanley Cup
Team
Unfair
Winning
Cup
Teams
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I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.
Mark Messier / Ice Hockey Player
Sports
Ideas
Obstruction
Puck
Thinking
Zone
Neutral
Rule
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Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.
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People
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Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.
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New York
Hockey
Hockey Player
Player
Downside
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I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey.
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Sports
Careers
Hockey
Thinking
Anywhere
Peaks
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I would never say one was more important or more gratifying than the next because there's a tremendous amount of work, as you know, that goes into winning a cup.
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Sports
Important
Winning
Tremendous
Cup
Gratifying
Tremendous Amount
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There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.
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Canada
Cups
Finals
Hockey
Years
Time Long Long Time
Mid
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25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that.
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Emphasis
Night
Winning
Years
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I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.
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Effort
Off Season
Player
Thinking
Condition
Overall
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When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.
Mark Messier / Ice Hockey Player
Sports
Just One
Play
Spells
Thinking
Slump
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When Wayne was traded, I became captain. For me it really wasn't anything - I didn't do anything or I didn't feel I had to do anything different than what I had been doing all along.
Mark Messier / Ice Hockey Player
Sports
Captains
Different
Wayne
Me Feel Doing
Captain
Traded
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We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time.
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Sports
Edmonton
Long
Standpoint
Team
Time Together Long
Stayed
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I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.
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Sports
Player
Pressure
Responsibility
Played
Perform
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I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.
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Focused
Statistics
Team
Thinking
Winning
Concept
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As a captain, I think it's important that the players really know who you are and what you stand for, what your beliefs are, and to be consistent in those if things are going good or things are going bad.
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Sports
Consistent
Player
Thinking
Good Your Important
Stand
Bad
Beliefs
Captain
Players
Good Bad Important
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I started as a fourth-line fighter, went to being a third-line centre, then a second-line winger and a first-line centre. I've played every role there is, and the only thing that matters is helping the team win.
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Hockey
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Winning
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If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard.
Mark Messier / Ice Hockey Player
New York
Sports
Compare
Edmonton
First Time
Regard
Winning
Fairly
Time Long New
Cup
First One
Similar
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