The importance of teammates is the thing I appreciate the most from those years. I was a lucky guy. There is nothing better than good teammates. I don't care what anybody says, you can't do it alone. It takes a good team for you to be a good player, and the same goes for playing on a bad team

Philip Anthony "Espo" Esposito OC (born February 20, 1942, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) is a retired, professional hockey centre who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins and New York Rangers.

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• I never shot a deer. I've never shot anything in my life. I never hunted. I'm just not that type of guy. But there's no doubt in my mind that I would have killed to win. That really scares me sometimes. Right now I think about it, and I get little goose bumps. I would have done anything - absolutely anything - to win. In a war, maybe that's what happens. It was our society against their society.
  • Reported in Neil Milbert, "Classic Soviet series: When Canada's stars shone brightest", The Chicago Tribune (January 18, 1991), p. C-15.

• Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport -- or in any job for that matter -- you won't succeed.
  • Quoted in Andrew Podnieks, "One on One with Phil Esposito," Legends of Hockey.net (2002-02-18).

• The importance of teammates is the thing I appreciate the most from those years. I was a lucky guy. There is nothing better than good teammates. I don't care what anybody says, you can't do it alone. It takes a good team for you to be a good player, and the same goes for playing on a bad team. I see Vincent Lecavalier play all the time. He gives it his all, but it comes down to your teammates,
  • Quoted in Andrew Podnieks, "One on One with Phil Esposito," Legends of Hockey.net (2002-02-18).
  • Esposito refers to his playing years.

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