I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.

You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.

My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.

The first time I met Wayne Gretzky... he never said anything back.

People say I'm henpecked. Well, let them say it.

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.

Rocket had that mean look on, every game we played. He was 100 percent hockey. He could hate with the best of them.

That our affections kill us not, nor dye.

Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

I'm of course nostalgic for Barack Obama all of a sudden.

With all the yoga and meditation that I do, when the chaos happens it happens. But I'm not as affected as a lot of people - I don't react as much. I just let things drip off my back a little bit.

Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.

Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.