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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
Coaching really is an individual philosophy.
Mark Messier
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.
Mark Messier
It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game.
Mark Messier
The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.
Mark Messier
My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.
Mark Messier
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
Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.
Mark Messier
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.
Mark Messier
I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.
Mark Messier
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.
Mark Messier
Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.
Mark Messier
I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.
Mark Messier
Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.
Mark Messier
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.
Mark Messier
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.
Mark Messier
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.
Mark Messier
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.
Mark Messier
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.
Mark Messier
I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant.
Mark Messier
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
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.
Mark Messier
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