Quotations

«Other than my dad, no one believed in me more and did more for me as a person and player.»

«All I was thinking was to try to figure out a way how to make the players believe that I believed that we were going to win.»

«My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.»

«I think that team ... we were all one. I don't think any one guy deserves more [credit] than the next. You could probably take any one of those people all the way through from the ownership to Neil [Smith], to Mike [Keenan] to our whole team there and you could take one person out of there and things might have been different. I say that in all honesty. We caught Lightning in a bottle.»

«It's been an unbelievable experience playing in New York and to do the things, after the success we had in Edmonton to come here and have success in New York, it was a dream come true. I came here wanting to win the Stanley Cup, and what I got was a life of experience.»

«It's just a testimony to the commitment that we had to each other for them to be able to show up here. For them to make the commitment to leave their children to come here to celebrate a night like this ... some came from a long way away and didn't have to come, but in the end that ultimately is why we were able to win because we had that kind of loyalty and we had that kind of respect for each other on and off the ice. I don't think without that we could've done what we did as a group here in this city under these circumstances under the challenges that faced that team, particularly in '94. [There was] unbelievable character in that dressing room. That was the only reason we were able to win.»

«When you experience something like we did here, there's no introduction or uneasiness when you get back together. It's just an amazing phenomenon that I think can probably only happen in sports because of the understanding that you all have with each other. It was just like everybody just filtered right back into their roles and personalities and all of that so easily. Because of it, it was just a real comfortable, easygoing time. ... It was just awesome. Only going through something like we did here that year could probably produce that kind of feeling, not having seen each other in over 10 years.»

«He's been playing on it. It wasn't getting enough time to heal.»

«I've never really thought about any individual records, ... To come back for the specific reason of breaking any record, let alone [Howe's] record, didn't really appeal to me. Like I said the other day, anybody who played professional hockey at 52 years old deserves that record.»

«I thought with the impending lockout that it was quite possibly my last game, ... I feel extremely grateful to have played it in New York for those great fans.»