I've spent every game I've ever played making sure I'm out-working the other guy.

The biggest thing I have learned is you can't take anything for granted. You have to work as hard as you can every night, regardless.

On every level I have played I've heard, 'Am I going to perform or not because of my size?' I think I have proved to people I can perform regardless of how big I am.

I feel more comfortable confidence-wise. You get to the NHL, and you're nervous about trying things. With experience, you're not as afraid of being creative.

Why would I want four or five more inches? I use my speed.

New York is a place I wanted to come

You want to be the guy who makes an impact in every game. In this sport it's all about results-winning games and making the playoffs.

Sometimes offensive players get turned into defensive players, which sometimes isn't a bad thing, but for me I need a chance to play more offense.

I don't know WHEN I'll be big enough to play!

I made the move (to #NYR) thinking about this opportunity, to play in the #StanleyCup Final.

There's a time in your life when you have to stop looking back and start looking forward because otherwise you're going to walk down the road one day and bump into a lamppost. But it's not easy.

A dog to vomit does turn, A fool to folly but return, The wise err and learn, Gaining from each burn.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.

Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.

It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.

You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.

There's different levels of where we do well throughout Europe. Fortunately, for us, it's pretty great all throughout it.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.