It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

I'm not playing for lack of options. But this is such a fleeting thing. When I'm done, I'm never, ever going to be able to come back to it. I know Vancouver is my last go.

There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed.

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

I have enough muscle already. Now I want to use it in more efficient ways.

The more I've done work with the IOC the more I've come to realize I'm really excited about this, the work that I'm doing and the impact that I can have if I'm fully committed to it.

Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.

In a way, by being fully committed to the Olympic movement globally, I'm better able to promote women's hockey and talk about women's hockey and put a face to women's hockey, to all the IOC members.

Freydolf worried that the stone might have been [stolen], but he finally found it safe and sound in one of the many drawers that were better for losing things than organizing them.

Single ladies, the only thing we need to be rescued from is the notion that we need to be rescued.

Seriously, when you see a new book fresh on the stand and in big letters it says “A Million Copies Sold, ” did you ever wonder who bought them?

The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.

I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.

And eat lots of mints, it fools the cops.

There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning.

Just as not all popular albums are wonderful, not all wonderful albums are popular.

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.