65 Quotes by Guy Lafleur

Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don’t make it, at least you can say you tried.

When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.

After 13 years, I couldn’t accept to be number two.

It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens – it was my dad’s team.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It’s nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it’s kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause.