If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I'd choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.

The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

Only one thing is ever guaranteed, that is that you will definitely not achieve the goal if you don't take the shot.

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.

You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

No matter who you are, we're creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Maybe it wasn't the talent the Lord gave me-maybe it was the passion.

Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.

The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.

Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof.

„Everyone wants to believe that there’s something else – something great – waiting for them on the other side. Paradise. Valhalla. Heaven. Their next – hopefully less horrible – life.

When you are happy, the people around you are happy, too, and it inspires them to change their own world.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.