My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.

You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.

My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.

The first time I met Wayne Gretzky... he never said anything back.

People say I'm henpecked. Well, let them say it.

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.

Not everything is funny or will make you laugh...but what a worthy goal to have.

The truth of the world is that in every group you will find some good and some bad people - which is why i am keenly aware that no group is ALL bad, just as no group is ALL good.

Be who you are

My illusion, the idea of a soul mate, was so entrenched in my fantasy that the thought of letting him go, wrecked me.

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

We aim to please... You aim too, please.

Life, it is not simple like a garden, where flowers are always flowers and weeds are always weeds.

If you want a friend, feed any animal.

There are common denominators that unite all members of al-Nahda: There is no one in al-Nahda who doubts about Islam There is no one in al-Nahda that believes in extremist views of Islam.

I do care about not 99 percent or 95 percent. I care about the very rich and the very poor. I care about 100 percent of America.