Steve Yzerman Quotes

• 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.

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• Darren McCarty is a big video game guy, and he brings his systems with him on the road.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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• 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.

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

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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.

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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.

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• 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.

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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.

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

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

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• We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games.

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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.

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Birth:	9th May, 1965
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Athlete, Ice Hockey Player

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