The past isn't going to get you to your goal.

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

I get paid to practice. I play the game for free.

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.

In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

Leadership comes with consistency.

I'm not afraid to fail. I'm afraid to be mediocre.

I want to be the best. That's just the human way.

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.

Feel body as luxury-- as a bird feels when shooting through the air, and as a child does always -- is health

The tragic irony in all of this is that when we focus so strongly on our need to get better, we actually get worse.

Faith assuages guides restores.

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

I reflect back on my mom's journey, someone who was an immigrant to Canada and came not knowing anything and figured it out tremendously. I reflect back on that a lot.

To be a 'believer' does not make you superior to others; but to be a 'humanist' does make it so!