That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.

Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried

Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.

The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.

When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.

I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.

You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.

The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in.

Play every game as if it's your last one

Forgiving is easier when we understand that forgiving someone else means that we are freeing ourselves of an unnecessary burden.

I am convinced that "all ladies are not the same". Some have pretty faces, others have beautiful characters. Some have facial make-ups, others have mental make-ups!

As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic.

I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to condemn them, that they may not love the world, the world hates them.

I think markets will never be efficient because of human nature.

We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.