Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

When you are absolutely, positively sure you know all there is to know about anything, you're as far from the truth as you will ever be.

Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.

What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.

My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars.

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

I wouldn't urinate in his ear if his brain was on fire!

I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire.

Then to have Brett come along and follow in the footsteps, it's so gratifying. I get as much enjoyment out of watching Brett play as I did of entertaining people myself.

My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.

Be humble and set the balls of your dreams rolling till God himself decides what next! As for "pride", allow it to go as a lone ranger!

It looks as if Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

The law is agnostic about truth.

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.

I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.

I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.

We look for God as though he were not already here.

The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean.