Mark Messier Sports Quotations

Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.

It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game.

I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams.

I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant.

Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.

I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard.