Mario Lemieux Quotations

We have a system, but guys aren't playing together and aren't all on the same page. We start playing when we're down two or three goals and you can't do that. That comes from not preparing mentally to play the game.

He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played.

Well, I think just a desire to come back and be a part of the game again.

As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.

Depending on how we start the season, I can play center or wing... It doesn't matter to me.

Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be.

When I'm able to see the ice ahead of time when I get the puck, I'm able to make some pretty good plays.

Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.

Oh, I did stop smoking a long time ago.

I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight.