Steve Yzerman Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

• Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Nhl, Cities

• I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Play, Missing

• I don't know that I'd agree I was our best player.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Player, Gamer

• It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Real, Ice

  IGN interview, www.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

• Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Drama, Decision

• I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Trying, Roles

• We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Time, Play

  The IGN Interview, ca.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

• The 70's hair with the long on the sides, just doesn't look good coming down the sides of the helmet.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Hair, Long

  IGN Sports Interview, www.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

• As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Kids, Long

  The IGN Interview, ca.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

• I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Time, Children

• Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Way, Polite

  IGN Interview, www.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

• When it gets to this point, it's just hard to pull the trigger.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Triggers, Hard

• I don't know if I've ever had a memorable body check. It's not really part of my game.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Memorable, Games

  IGN Interview, ca.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

• We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Team, Winning

• I consider the Detroit Red Wings one of the greatest franchises in any sport. For a player to come in and play, it's so special to wear the jersey.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Player, Wings

• I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Spring, Player

• We’re stuck in the middle and need to decide what kind of sport do we want to be. Either anything goes and we accept the consequences or take the next step and eliminate fighting.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Fighting, Next Steps

  "Steve Yzerman calls for ban on fighting" by James Mirtle, www.theglobeandmail.com. October 2, 2013.

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