When I came to North America, it was hard. It was hard to understand, hard to get someone to understand me. I only knew Russian. I studied French in school, but it didn't help. I forgot most of that.

In Russia, we had tough times. Only one puck, I always wanted the puck, so I learn how to keep it and make space and get puck when other guy has it.

I say no words... I can't speak with him. I shy. He too good.

When I started shooting it just gives my partners more chances for rebounds. It opens up more room.

I don't remember those early playoff games. Keep it positive. I'm a different player. More focused. I know how important it is to score in the playoffs.

I wasn't strong when I was young. The puck was maybe too heavy. I guess I tried to move the puck from side to side to keep from getting hit.

You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire.""And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal.

Who I am now is who I was before. The three years between, they were the aberration. You wouldn't recognize the person I became during that lost time. I barely do.

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it's that what it will take is a vision of the future that is better than our present.

We never know which of us will start the chain reaction. But one of us will.

Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

It's time for you to know who you are

My advice to you is never stop believing.

Our possessions are a trust from God. What we clutch tightly, we lose. What we place in His hands, we will possess.

To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.