In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.

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.

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 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.

Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.

If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the streams of temporal mercies are dried up.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

Events are not a matter of chance.

I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.

Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.

Most people if I like their music, I can get good pictures.

Suspicion is the greatest enemy of love whether it is true or not.

Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land.