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 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.

You appreciate things after you lose them.

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

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

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

Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight.

Heroism of your father doesn't make you a hero, heroism of you doesn't make your son a hero.

Your LinkedIn profile should leave no room for doubt about the kind of job you’re looking for and why you’re the best person for that position.

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

It's great to tell people you have your own show, but that's where the fun stops.

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline