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It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game.
Mark Messier
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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
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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
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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
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Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.
Mark Messier
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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.
Mark Messier
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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.
Mark Messier
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I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.
Mark Messier
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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.
Mark Messier
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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.
Mark Messier
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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.
Mark Messier
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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.
Mark Messier
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The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.
Mark Messier
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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.
Mark Messier
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