You can never really understand it until you've experienced it.

I think it's just another one of those hockey things. I'm not sure anybody can find out why it happens. It just sort of grows on its own.

Being captain means more in hockey than in any sport. You wear that 'C' on your sweater, and you have an obligation to lead. Messier was all about that.

Retiring numbers in sports is way overdone, but it's impossible to argue with this one. Messier always will be 'the captain' in New York.

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.

I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.