Guy Lafleur

“You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.”

“That's the key to win a lot of games: you have to pull the wagon together, and everybody has to give 100 per cent, and that's how you're going to win games.”

“In the NHL, 95 percent of success is confidence.”

“I really love my family and kid, but first of all, it's my hockey, my career. My family is second, and my fans go third. Sometimes my fans go second, and my family is third. It's turning all the time.”

“A captain shouldn't be chosen on the amount of goals he's going to score.”

“Hockey is not a one-man show; it's a team effort. If you don't work as a team - even if one or two guys aren't working - you're not going to win. That's the way it is.”

“I hate golf.”

“I would compare that to when I first started with the Montreal Canadiens; it was a big family then, where the guys really stuck together and worked like a unit. But when I came back in '88, it was not like that anymore.”

“When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.”

“The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in.”

“I've been playing hockey since I was five years old. It's a part of my life.”

“Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.”

“I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.”

“It's nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents.”

“I was impressed all my life. Because of the Montreal Canadiens' past, it means a lot because it was a team I cherished as a kid. It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.”

“It's nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it's kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause.”

“Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried.”

“Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL.”

“I always liked speed.”

“I didn't go to the 12th grade... I stopped at 11.”