I've been excited since I received a phone call from Paul Holmgren inviting me to represent the Flyers and Flyer fans at the alumni game of the Winter Classic weekend.

I might have practiced stick-handling with my head up a bit more.

You have to dream dreams to live dreams.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past.

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

Right now I'm happy to be on the ice anywhere, anytime.

People on the streets are ready for hockey.

There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute.

I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

Most people have the blindness of new-born things - a not-incurable blindness, the sight being there but its use not known.

Suffering! ... We owe to it all that is good in us all that gives value to life we owe to it pity we owe to it courage we owe to it all the virtues.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.

We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.

People need to make a stand and be clear that trading in ivory is immoral and unacceptable.