You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.

You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.

My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.

The first time I met Wayne Gretzky... he never said anything back.

People say I'm henpecked. Well, let them say it.

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.

Rocket had that mean look on, every game we played. He was 100 percent hockey. He could hate with the best of them.

The purpose of life has eternal consequences

Never regret anything that makes you smile.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

I'm from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult.

Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.

Myths are lies that tell the truth.

Find the meaning behind whatever it is you're going through because everybody's got something.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions