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I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Health
Exhausted
Healthy
Stay Positive
Stay Strong
Stay
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I don't know that I'd agree I was our best player.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Sports
Agree
Gamer
Player
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I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Appreciate
People
Way
Hope I Am Me
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And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Right Thing
Team
Always The Right Thing Right
Do The Right Thing The Right Thing
Do The Right Thing
The Right Thing
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When it gets to this point, it's just hard to pull the trigger.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Sports
Hard
Triggers
Pull
Trigger
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We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Airplane
Games
Tables
Two
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As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Kids
Sports
British
British Columbia
Columbia
Long
Long Way
Way
Skate
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I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Sports
Missing
Play
Never Know Play
Miss
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We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Sports
Time
Play
Spare Time
Leagues
Outdoors
Spare
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Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Sports
Cities
Detroit
Following
Nhl
Red
Wings
Red Wings
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I don't know if I've ever had a memorable body check. It's not really part of my game.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Sports
Games
Memorable
Check
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Darren McCarty is a big video game guy, and he brings his systems with him on the road.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Games
Guy
Video
Brings
Systems
Video Game
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People here want the team to win and to do well. The thing is, we know when to shoot the puck.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Hockey
Team
Winning
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I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Sports
Player
Spring
Allow
Health Good Me
Confident
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The 70's hair with the long on the sides, just doesn't look good coming down the sides of the helmet.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Sports
Hair
Helmet
Long
Sides
Good Look Long
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I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Sports
Time
Children
Free Time
Time Wife Look
Initially
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I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
General Manager
Managers
Organization
Wanted
Manager
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When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Time
Ice
Little Time
Littles
Quick
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Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Sports
Balanced
Polite
Way
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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.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Knees
Mean
Play
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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.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Canada
Dominant
Hockey
Pride
Thinking
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Playoff hockey is the best way to market your team. It's the best way to grow your fan base and give hope to your players and for them to develop.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Best Way
Hockey
Best Hope Your
Base
Fan Base
Playoff
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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 to wear the jersey.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Sports
Player
Wings
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I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Sports
Adapted
Prove
Roles
Trying
Willing
Deserved
Me Always Way
Figured
Me Way Feel
Role
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I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Hard Times
Impression
Lasting
Memorable
Thinking
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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 I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Detroit
Honor
Perfect
Player
Red
Six
Wings
Original
Great Me Honor
Franchise
Red Wings
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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 the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.
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Sports
Ice
Real
Flies
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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 consequences or take the next step and eliminate fighting.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Sports
Fighting
Next Steps
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Whether somebody is really competent - whether he has a good hockey mind, whether he's a good person to lead a hockey club - is something determined over a long period of time, not one tournament.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Competent
Determined
Good Person
Hockey
Time Good Mind
Somebody
Club
Period
Lead
Long Period
Tournament
Whether
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We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Sports
Defense
Seasons
Stanley
Stanley Cup
Team
Winning
Cup
Teams
Throughout
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Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Sports
Coaching Staff
Decision
Definite
Drama
Management
Staff
Ended
Relatively
Plan
Quickly
Season
Settle
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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 it presented, watched the celebration in the locker room, and always dreamed that maybe I'd get there.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Lockers
Long
Years
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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 was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Arms
Conditioning
Fall
Heavy
Locker Room
Old Things
Team
Your People More
Bag
Locker
Minute
Old Thing
Punch
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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 didn't know he was here tonight, it was kind of a coincidence to get that assist on a night that he's here.
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Guy
Night
Special
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I wore No. 19 because of Bryan Trottier. I liked the overall aspect of his game. I liked the way he conducted himself on the ice. He was a quiet guy. He played really hard; just a good all-around, prototypical center man who could do everything.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Aspect
Bryan
Guy
Ice
Quiet
All-Around
Good Man Game
Played
Game
Center
Liked
Himself
Overall
Wore
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We should've been better, more disciplined. We made untimely mistakes defensively, as a group. This is really humbling for us. After winning the Stanley Cup, we got brought back down to earth, hard. Maybe the humbling is good for us in the long run.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Running
Mistake
Winning
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We penalize and suspend players for making contact with the head while checking, in an effort to reduce head injuries, yet we still allow fighting. 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 consequences, or take the next step and eliminate fighting.
Steve Yzerman / Ice Hockey Player
Contact
Stuck
Checking
Eliminate
Injuries
Next Step
Reduce
Suspend
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