Mark Messier Quotes
All I was thinking was to try to figure out a way how to make the players believe that I believed that we were going to win. 
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I went to New York with one thing in mind, to win a Stanley Cup... When the time came, Glen Sather asked me where I wanted to go and I said I'd like to go to New York and win a Stanley Cup. He was able to make it happen.
- Mark Messier
When you experience something like we did here, there's no introduction or uneasiness when you get back together. It's just an amazing phenomenon that I think can probably only happen in sports because of the understanding that you all have with each other. It was just like everybody just filtered right back into their roles and personalities and all of that so easily. Because of it, it was just a real comfortable, easygoing time. ... It was just awesome. Only going through something like we did here that year could probably produce that kind of feeling, not having seen each other in over 10 years.
- Mark Messier
It's not easy winning or leading a team sport because there are so many different agendas and individuality... I feel lucky to have been part of some of the best hockey ever played [in Edmonton] and to be part of a team [in New York] that was willing to sacrifice themselves for the benefit of the team.
- Mark Messier