And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit.

I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.

Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.

I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.

People here want the team to win and to do well. The thing is, we know when to shoot the puck.

I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.

I don't know if I've ever had a memorable body check. It's not really part of my game.

The 70's hair with the long on the sides, just doesn't look good coming down the sides of the helmet.

When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

I can't go to war with paparazzi.

None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.

In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.

How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it [an oversized home].

Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.

The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

Being faced with too many options. I mean, it makes me feel as though I'm overwhelmed by too many possibilities; that can be a very vulnerable feeling because it's hard to make a decision.

Innovation comes only from readily and seamlessly sharing information rather than hoarding it.