It's just amazing how many companies suddenly want you to hold up their products after you've held up the Stanley Cup.

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.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.

Music is my life and my passion.

As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

When you stand on the victory stand, you must be able to ask yourself: 'Did I win this medal?'

God is the collective ego of the world