#aye

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player. ↗

— Mario Lemeiux

#hockey player #i #i can #key player #long

We, as a league, must do a better job of protecting the integrity of the game and the safety of our players. ↗

— Mario Lemeiux

#better job #game #integrity #job #league

All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#enjoy #every #goes #i #i can

Everybody I talked to - from my friends to my family and some of the players - really gave me a lot of support from the start. And that certainly made me feel good about trying to come back and be one of the best again. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#again #back #best #certainly #come

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. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#cup #here #how #i #know

The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#against #career #few #first #games

But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it. ↗

— Ivan Lendl

#czech #differently #difficult #fast #few

But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed. ↗

— Ivan Lendl

#did #differently #era #fair #game

Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win. ↗

— Ivan Lendl

#could #done #favorites #get #just

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#most #perfect #prayer #simple #thought