I play hard and aggressive. I don't lay out the huge body checks because it's not really the style I play. But I love to be around the net and love battling corners and trying to dish pucks out.

It's no fun losing a tooth or getting your face whacked by a stick.

Being compared to him [Ron Francis] is pretty cool for me, but I know I am a long way away. I feel really comfortable at center, being able to roam the ice and do your thing.

Whatever I can do to help our team, whether it's defense or offense, I'm going to do it.

The atmosphere at the different arenas has been pretty crazy. It's been a lot of fun coming to the rink every night and competing at this level and intensity. It's going to continue and get better.

I want to be that counted-on guy to score goals.

I'll do whatever I can to promote the game.

Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.

Love can bear anything better than ridicule.

detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

Religious faith to W. H. Bragg was the willingness to stake his all on the hypothesis that Christ was right, and test it by a lifetime's experiment in charity.

Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

Create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback.

Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you.

How ridiculous it is to waste our lives experimenting with those things for which we already have the answers!

The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled time when everyone was richer, younger, more powerful.