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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Play every game as if it's your last one

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.

All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking

There was something called Christianity.

Molly is the opposite. So many things have gone wrong for her in her seventeen years that she’s come to expect it. When something does go right, she hardly knows what to think.

I think I've had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I've said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.

I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.