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

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.

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

I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everything as a kid to stay in shape - jogging, work on the farm, driving the tractor. I'll never forget.

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

Words are clothes that thoughts wear

She’d found him. She’d helped him. She’d saved him. He was hers. And they’d taken him away, ripped him from her arms, literally.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is "elephant".

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers. Flowers help you forget life's tragedies.

To all fathers and mothers of the Church, tell your children that you love them and that you are so happy to have them in your family.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

There are no truths. Only stories.

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!