I know how well I can play. I don't mention myself with the other players. I mention myself with the best.

You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing.

For me, it is the worst kind of sacrilege if you are given some of special talent and you don't take advantage of this gift.

All that matters is that you find a way to put the puck in the net. It doesn't matter how. I learned that from Mario.

I yell at the players if I don't like the way they are playing. But when they're playing well, I hug them.

There's probably a lot of people wondering if I can play.

I don't try to be anything. I just want to play my game.

I love to play for Pittsburgh. If they can't afford me, then I'd love to play in L.A. or New York.

You appreciate things after you lose them.

I'm not 21 and trying to prove something with my words.

People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.

Hope finds its fulfillment when nurtured through faith and shared with love.

Why one enjoys maternal grandparents more than the paternal ones, i have never understood, but it was like that for me.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.

You may be frustrated with religion, but don't take that out on God.

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home'.

It rained all that night. The next day was Saturday, the Fourth of July.

The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.

As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.