But inside of me I knew that the Olympics were still there. I was still young enough. I knew that once I transitioned out of hockey, it would be really hard to go back.

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

I'm not playing for lack of options. But this is such a fleeting thing. When I'm done, I'm never, ever going to be able to come back to it. I know Vancouver is my last go.

It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.

There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed.

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

I have enough muscle already. Now I want to use it in more efficient ways.

The more I've done work with the IOC the more I've come to realize I'm really excited about this, the work that I'm doing and the impact that I can have if I'm fully committed to it.

Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.

What I should do and what I want to do are two opposing forces. I have no idea which way I am going to end up.

The children of this world and the adults of this world are in entirely separate boats and only drift near each other when we need a ride from someone or when someone needs us to wash our hands.

I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot and pretty much that was my mode of animating through high school.

You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.

One of the first things that surprised me in a positive, wonderfully positive way, is that this works - patient capital works.

I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.

The only really indecent people are the chaste.

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.

The very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art.

Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.