Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.

You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.

Forget about style; worry about results.

You never know how a single interaction with a person might affect their life, so you must constantly try to be at your best.

Blood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow 'cause there's no one left to beat.

Hockey is a tough game.

When you're young, you don't realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.

I couldn't wait to get on the ice. I couldn't wait to get to practice. As a kid I couldn't wait to shoot pucks or play in parking lots, or play on the river or play on the bay.

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.

Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima

Every summer there are a number of nights, not many, but a number, when everything is perfect. The light, the warmth, the smells, the mist, the birdsong – the moths. Who can sleep? Who wants to?

If you run a thousand miles a minute, you can expect to wear out a few pairs of shoes.

I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.

When I realized, "Hm, I'm not that good at all. It will take me weeks, maybe months, to master the 32 yolks." When I did, it was a turning point in my career.

O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen.

Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.

A little wolf is present in every one of us.

As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone.