I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.

I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.

Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.

I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.

You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.

There is a level of positive anger that needed to be alive and to make a head way in this life.

Loneliness is more painful than being hurt

Don’t worry, ” I said. “We won’t be having slumber parties and spa days any time soon.” “I quite like spa days.

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

Is there anything more important than a child?

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.

Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing where you went wrong.

Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion.

The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.

I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man.