Before you become successful, you have to fall down on your face.

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself.

Leadership is one of sports intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, Follow me.

Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.

When we've got the puck, they can't score.

I didn't spend a whole lot of time here, but I had the seven best years of my career in this city and having an attachment here 20-some odd years later is pretty special to me.

Leadership is one of sports' intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, 'Follow me.'

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

All the people that still believed in me, after seven years - it's a long time.

Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.

It's quite weird knocking that out of them and telling them to forget cooking for chefs; forget what chefs say about your food.

You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.

But just because it burns doesn't mean you're gonna die. You've gotta get up and try, try, try.

Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works.

All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.