Playing the sport has taught me about teamwork and how to be a good team player, social skills and most importantly, dedication.

I really don't care what the other team thinks. I don't care what their fans think. If they hate me, great. Hate me. We'll just keep winning, I'll keep scoring and we'll move on.

Hockey taught me to challenge myself and be the best I can be on and off the ice.

I try to hold it in until I get on the ice, then in front of the net sometimes I'll pass gas.

I can't wait for the crowd, the noise, the energy in the building. I can't wait to take that all away from them.

Hockey is an amazing sport and it has definitely had a positive impact on my life. But my dad always said school comes first, and if I didn't do well in school I didn't get to play hockey.

Growing up, it was tough to balance, but looking back I appreciate my parents' efforts to make sure I was well-rounded.

We [the Subban brothers] are role models to a lot of kids, not just black kids, but all kids out there and that's what we want to be known for.

I'm the oldest, I have the most experience, and I'm the best looking [betwin brothers]. I've been told that on numerous occasions.

A huge part of my passion for the sport comes from being Canadian and growing up watching Hockey Night in Canada on CBC with my parents and siblings.

My dad has always said to me, "where there is a will there is a way" and this is the type of dedication hockey has taught me. Being dedicated to this sport [hockey] has been my will to play.

Doost", Ahmed voiced. "Doost", he repeated softly, shutting his eyes.The word felt like a caress."what does it mean?"'It means "The Friend", "The One I Love", "the One I Long For".

You can't raise happy kids in a happy family if you aren't happy and don't know who you are. You can't pin your life on someone else's happiness.

Well, I would say that I'm just drifting. Here in the pool.

They're like lips, they're like noses, they're like eyeballs, you should be able to have them out all the time if you want. Nipples are beautiful things, don't hide them.

With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.

The laws of war right now say that we can respond when our country is threatened. That is what international law says.

One has no protecting power save prudence. [Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]

...the collapse of tsarism, while not improbably, was certainly not inevitable.

I saw it his eyes. I felt it when he touched me.

Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels.... Such is the real nature of horses.