Rocket had that mean look on, every game we played. He was 100 percent hockey. He could hate with the best of them.

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.

At the end of our lives, when our bodies are about to be laid in Mother Earth, we will know for ourselves whether we are a Two-Legged being full of light or a Two-Legged being full of darkness.

The Buddhists believe that everything in life is random. There are patterns that are intrinsic to life. We don't know why, we just know they're there like the DNA. We have no idea.

I've been very careful. I've gone through pretty much everything. I'm very careful not to let go of the prized possessions, or too much of it that I'll regret in the future.

I don't think I'm destined to be the eternal bachelor.

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

I work six months and get three or four with the family.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.

If you want customers to hear about you, make something worth talking about.

Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

A human being is a deciding being.