My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.

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.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

When you can give up approval and appreciation seeking behaviors, then you will become true to yourself and the universe.

Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave -The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat -It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

There is something in every season, in every day, to celebrate with thanksgiving.

Actually when I'm depressed or feeling down, I seem to play quiet music and enjoy the time. So I listen to a lot of ballads and I try to enjoy the time with music.

Cocaine is totally different than steroids.

We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?

We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.

God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod.