#play

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

I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#decision #i #i think #juniors #just

I'm only 35, and I felt that the time was right to try to come back and have a chance for him to see me play. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#chance #come #felt #him #i

My body's feeling it a little bit. But one good thing, my back is in good shape, and that's my main concern. I know that my legs are going to take awhile to get back to where I was a few years ago, but as long as my back is solid, I feel that I can play many years. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#awhile #back #bit #body #concern

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

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. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#ahead #get #good #i #ice

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