Requesting a change of environment was an extremely difficult decision. After a tremendous amount of reflection and numerous conversations with my family, it made the most sense to seek a change.

You do your job, you get your work done at the rink and then you go home. The big thing is figuring out what you're going to do the rest of the day.

I've always been a goal scorer. Playing both ways is something I wanted to do coming into the league.

I'm an old-school guy. I don't try to be too flashy.

With the year off, I think most guys were excited to get going, but coming to Ottawa, a new place, made me even more excited.

The first game was different but tonight we were just worried about getting ourselves back on track. It's another loss. We've got to keep going, keep trying to get out of this and win on Saturday.

I wasn't putting too much emphasis on it (the booing). I think that you have to put it behind you.

Everybody is going through the same thing. The way the schedule is, it's tough down the stretch.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

A smile is not to take, it's given.

Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get in accord with them they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world.

I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.

There are moments that I've had some real brilliance, you know. But I think they are moments. And sometimes, in a career, moments are enough.

One of these days I will be an old man in a rocking chair on a porch. Wouldn't it be nice to have my whole life there to read and kind of re-live it.

The neuro-physiological organization which we call instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way, particularly apparent when its function goes wrong.

But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.

Don't live your life as though you were measuring it with a ruler.

Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.