If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment.

You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon

Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher.

When you pull on that jersey, you represent yourself and your teammates, and the name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back. Get that through your head!

You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

Great moments are born from great opportunities.

The name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back.

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

This is your time. Their time is done. It's over. I'm sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw 'em. This is your time. Now go out there and take it!

You must have goals in your life, or otherwise be prepared to be used by those who do have them.

Win, lose, or tie, you're gonna play like champions!

Follow your star, it's never too late, even if it doesn't quite happen as you expect.

Most people desire comfort and pleasure.

Enjoy this moment because it may not come again.

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

I totally ignore people who criticize me for coming to Israel, including whats-his-name [Roger Waters]. If he were to contact me, I would tell him to tell it where the sun don't shine.

Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things?

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze. "Yeah," I say. "Why?" I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be.

Poor man. Poor mankind.