Lafleur Quotes

#1. Afrofuturism is an intersection of imagination, technology, the future, and liberation. "I generally define Afrofuturism as a way of imagining possible futures through a black cultural lens," says Ingrid LaFleur, an art curator and Afrofuturist.

Ytasha L. Womack

#2. My first interview at SI, I sat in silence next to Guy LaFleur for five minutes on the New York Rangers team bus until he finally broke the ice. Those early interviews, every one of them was like a terrible first date.

Steve Rushin

#3. Madame LaFleur would say that you're more of a classical ballet dancer instead of a jazz dancer. But sometimes all you have to do is change costumes to become something different.

Karen White

#4. Guy Lafleur said "Each of us has only one past but there are many futures".

Billy Graham

#5. But I'd much rather face a dozen assassins like LaFleur any night than deal with something as tricky, convoluted, and fragile as my feelings.

Jennifer Estep

#6. Play every game as if it's your last one

Guy Lafleur

#7. I want to design for the working women. Okay well - it sounds like 90% of us are that. But really, we are more. We are working women who like to cook, to travel; we are a girlfriend, a writer. We are so much more than just being defined by the one job we have.

Sarah Lafleur

#8. Paris is a city for adults and women who really enjoy fashion.

Sarah Lafleur

#9. A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.

Guy Lafleur

#10. But I remind myself that I know you. I know your heart, and that will always stay the same, so I will always know you ...

Suzanne LaFleur

#11. It's nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents.

Guy Lafleur

#12. Every office interprets business casual differently. Feel out your office!

Sarah Lafleur

#13. Play every game as if it is your last one.

Guy Lafleur

#14. Individual records are nice to get, but before the season starts, you want to play to win the Stanley Cup!

Guy Lafleur

#15. My mother. She's 65 now and she has immaculate style. And that's exactly what I want to be.

Sarah Lafleur

#16. 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.

Guy Lafleur

#17. Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL.

Guy Lafleur

#18. Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.

Guy Lafleur

#19. 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.

Guy Lafleur

#20. Whoever thought of putting hot, sweaty, disgusting gym class first period should die a long, painful death.

Sarah Lafleur

#21. After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two.

Guy Lafleur

#22. When a woman tells me she loves my dresses. These women have nothing to gain to tell you that they love your dresses. A lot of professional women admit dressing for work previously was such a challenge. It's these moments for me that are so rewarding.

Sarah Lafleur

#23. When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.

Guy Lafleur

#24. The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.

Guy Lafleur

#25. By selling directly to customers, real women, the brand is able to avoid significant retail mark-ups that typically exist in high end fashion.

Sarah Lafleur

#26. I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.

Guy Lafleur

#27. New York is a much younger city that drives culture. In Paris, older women drive the culture - really drive culture.

Sarah Lafleur

#28. Well, sometimes things don't change on their own. Sometimes we have to change them.

Suzanne LaFleur

#29. I always want to make sure that I am wearing what I love. What makes you feel good. And you're not wearing for anyone else but yourself.

Sarah Lafleur

#30. My mother always says, "The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak." I can be very focused and determined. But, I can also be very stubborn. Be flexible be nuanced.

Sarah Lafleur

#31. I want to design dresses for the purposeful woman. Women who have passion - whether that be work- or something outside of work.

Sarah Lafleur

#32. as the descendants of the Normans finally amalgamated with the English natives, the Anglo-Saxon language reasserted itself; but in its poverty it had to borrow hundreds of French words (literary, intellectual, and cultural) before it could become the language of literature.

Richard A. LaFleur

#33. Women show off their personality and character through accessories more than with low-cut shirts and skirts with huge slits.

Sarah Lafleur

#34. 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.

Guy Lafleur

#35. 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.

Guy Lafleur

#36. A good friend is one of the hardest things to keep in this life. Don't forget that sometimes you have to work at it.

Suzanne LaFleur

#37. Be flexible be nuanced. It's important to open yourself up to new opportunities and experiences and not be afraid to take risks.

Sarah Lafleur

#38. Take hints from other women in the office. We are very fortunate to be in a generation where there are a lot of older women in the office. Take a look at what they're wearing.

Sarah Lafleur

#39. 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.

Guy Lafleur

#40. But in life people come and go. We don't always have control over it. But we can control how we respond. We can keep going, keep living the best we can. We can love the people we have instead of shutting them out. We can do our best to get to know them in the time we have.

Suzanne LaFleur

#41. No matter how much we love someone, or think we know them, we can never know what it is like to be inside them.

Suzanne LaFleur

#42. We have plenty of room for people ... in our lives, I mean. Especially the ones who make us be the people we want to be.

Suzanne LaFleur

#43. It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.

Guy Lafleur

#44. Sometimes I wonder if life is all about one moment. Everything before and everything after is about that one moment, and we are all stuck there.

Suzanne LaFleur

#45. The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.

Guy Lafleur

#46. The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in.

Guy Lafleur

#47. I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain my confidence, maybe the most important thing. I have learned a lot to relax. I know what I can do now, and I do it.

Guy Lafleur

#48. 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.

Guy Lafleur

#49. You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.

Guy Lafleur