The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.
From Guy Lafleur
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.
Play every game as if it is your last one.
Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL.
It's nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents.
A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.
I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everything as a kid to stay in shape - jogging, work on the farm, driving the tractor. I'll never forget.
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.
That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.
It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.
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