Mark Messier Quotes

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• Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the action in the face of fear.

  Mark Messier

  Bravery, Faces, Action

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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.

  Mark Messier

  Team, Hockey, Winning

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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.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Player, Thinking

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• The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.

  Mark Messier

  Inspirational, Stress, Hockey

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• You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.

  Mark Messier

  Philosophy, Belief, Consistent

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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

  Hard Work, People, Ceilings

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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

  Sports, Thinking, Play

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• When I left here I left everything here. It's time to move on

  Mark Messier

  Moving, Hockey, Time To Move On

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• I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Havens

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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

  Sports, Winning, Important

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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

  Sports, Team, People

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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

  Team, Winning, Thinking

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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

  Sports, Thinking, Ideas

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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

  Motivational, Hockey, Thinking

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• Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Team, Personality

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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

  New York, Hockey, Player

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• Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.

  Mark Messier

  Transition, Captains, Easy

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• I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

  Mark Messier

  Thinking, Accomplishment, Individual

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• Coaching really is an individual philosophy.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Philosophy, Coaching

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• Biologically, I'm 10. Chronologically, I'm 33. In hockey years, I'm 66.

  Mark Messier

  Hockey, 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.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Player, Thinking

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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

  Sports, Responsibility, Player

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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

  Sports, New York, Winning

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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

  Sports, Different, Captains

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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.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Hockey, Thinking

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