When you are absolutely, positively sure you know all there is to know about anything, you're as far from the truth as you will ever be.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.

What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.

My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars.

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

I wouldn't urinate in his ear if his brain was on fire!

I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire.

Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids

Then to have Brett come along and follow in the footsteps, it's so gratifying. I get as much enjoyment out of watching Brett play as I did of entertaining people myself.

My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.

Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life’s problems when you count them as joy.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

You have to have patience to be a legislator.

Sure, as long as he ties a 56 lb. weight to each leg.

Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.

We are not to be so concerned about who approves or disapproves of us, but remember that God's approval is what counts. Those whom God approves are approved indeed.

I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.

Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well.

What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?