I'm sorry I didn't feel any better or play any better, but that's what happens at the end of careers.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

Every day is a great day for hockey.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game.

Play without fear, and you will be successful.

All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly.

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

I think we have to show some pride in the jersey that we are wearing, and can’t quit.

One thing I hate is people screaming at me. If you want me to do something, talk to me. When someone screams at me to hurry up, I slow down.

I didn't like the way the game was being played.

Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Shoot for the stars. You may not get the stars-but you may get the moon.

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.

People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?

There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.

True joy is to take pleasure in one's own accomplishments.

I would rather die upon yonder gallows, than live in slavery.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

I always try to be a universalist, not a specialist.