Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.

My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

My first season Butch Bouchard accidentally sent me to the hospital for three days with a concussion, but I never backed away from Butch or anyone else after I came back.

It's not just the child that has autism. It's the whole family that has autism. It's not a one person thing.

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.

What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.

When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.

I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.

Looking back, I've never had one regret.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Celebrate every moment of your sacred-life.

Maybe you should stop putting so much faith into what you read in books.

My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.

A career is a progression of ups and downs, how you deal with them and how you bounce back.

In life, you get what you tolerate.

In a relationship the details are everything because they remind you - just when you need to be reminded the most - why you fell in love with someone in the first place.

If any spirit created the universe, it is malevolent, not benevolent.

What made me sign with the Cardinals? Because they used salesmanship, the personal touch.

I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . .