No matter who you are, we're creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.

The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

Only one thing is ever guaranteed, that is that you will definitely not achieve the goal if you don't take the shot.

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.

You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Maybe it wasn't the talent the Lord gave me-maybe it was the passion.

I missed 100% of the shots I didn't take

If there is no desire for prayer, maybe there is no hunger for God.

In every life there are events that reshape one's sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed.

What you don't wish for will always be beyond your reach.

Real love is the shared loneliness".

Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.

If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.

I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents.

It's fine to criticize somebody else's crimes and misdeeds, but you don't talk about your own. The only exception is a country that is defeated. And even that is rather nuanced.

It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools.

Fine, but I’m not ripping the head off a voodoo chicken or drinking anything disgusting. (Grace)