If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn't be doing that.

You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.

Forget about style; worry about results.

You never know how a single interaction with a person might affect their life, so you must constantly try to be at your best.

Blood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow 'cause there's no one left to beat.

Hockey is a tough game.

When you're young, you don't realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.

I couldn't wait to get on the ice. I couldn't wait to get to practice. As a kid I couldn't wait to shoot pucks or play in parking lots, or play on the river or play on the bay.

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.

Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.

...as if prayers ever put out a fire.

As a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.

Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

We're social animals; we're meant to be together, but we were never necessarily meant to be together without being together. That was never the plan, I don't think.

Boy, does that give you street cred for years after, if you tell people you were on 'The Larry Sanders Show!'

God may not allow you to touch thousands but He may allow you to touch one who will touch thousands.

People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.

I’d learned that my mother was a badass in disguise. She was Van Helsing in an apron and heels, and—at least for the time being—I couldn’t think of a single thing cooler than that.

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

I feel very fortunate to have my ears. I'd share them with everybody but I only have two to go around.