Whatever I can do to help our team, whether it's defense or offense, I'm going to do it.

It's no fun losing a tooth or getting your face whacked by a stick.

Being compared to him [Ron Francis] is pretty cool for me, but I know I am a long way away. I feel really comfortable at center, being able to roam the ice and do your thing.

I play hard and aggressive. I don't lay out the huge body checks because it's not really the style I play. But I love to be around the net and love battling corners and trying to dish pucks out.

The atmosphere at the different arenas has been pretty crazy. It's been a lot of fun coming to the rink every night and competing at this level and intensity. It's going to continue and get better.

I want to be that counted-on guy to score goals.

I'll do whatever I can to promote the game.

If you push your luck too hard, fortune's muscles might tear.

I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.

Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard bringsmore satisfaction in the end.

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

When life takes away the forms that you thought were the foundation of your life, what's left? The life that needs no foundation - that is the foundation. The formless. The essence.

I'm not a control freak.

When you're telling a story, you've got to give details.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

They think I'm too old to cause trouble. Old age is a powerful disguise.