Steve Yzerman Quotes

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

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Nhl, Cities

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• 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

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• And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.

  Steve Yzerman

  Team, Right Thing

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• 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.

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• As long as I could remember, since I was 5 years old, I watched the Stanley Cup. I stayed up, made a point of watching it presented, watched the celebration in the locker room, and always dreamed that maybe I'd get there.

  Steve Yzerman

  Years, Long, Lockers

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• I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.

  Steve Yzerman

  Stay Strong, Stay Positive, Healthy

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• I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.

  Steve Yzerman

  People, Appreciate, Way

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• I mean, the best thing for my knee, for anyone's knee, is to never play again and retire. But I'm not going to do that.

  Steve Yzerman

  Mean, Play, Knees

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• 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

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

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Player, Gamer

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• People here want the team to win and to do well. The thing is, we know when to shoot the puck.

  Steve Yzerman

  Team, Hockey, Winning

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• We should've been better, more disciplined. We made untimely mistakes defensively, as a group. This is really humbling for us. After winning the Stanley Cup, we got brought back down to earth, hard. Maybe the humbling is good for us in the long run.

  Steve Yzerman

  Running, Mistake, Winning

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• When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.

  Steve Yzerman

  Time, Ice, Littles

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

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• It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.

  Steve Yzerman

  Player, Wings, Perfect

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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.

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

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Play, Missing

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• 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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• 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.

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

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Triggers, Hard

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• I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit.

  Steve Yzerman

  Memorable, Hard Times, Thinking

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

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• 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.

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• There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off.

  Steve Yzerman

  Team, Fall, Old Things

  ING Sports interview, ca.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

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• It's true that in Canada, we pride ourselves on the game, and we like to think we're the dominant hockey nation in the world.

  Steve Yzerman

  Hockey, Pride, Thinking

  Interview with Charlie Gillis, www.macleans.ca. February 11, 2010.

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