The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

Every day is a great day for hockey.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game.

Play without fear, and you will be successful.

All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly.

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

I think we have to show some pride in the jersey that we are wearing, and can’t quit.

One thing I hate is people screaming at me. If you want me to do something, talk to me. When someone screams at me to hurry up, I slow down.

I didn't like the way the game was being played.

Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.

Doing our best and doing it better everyday will help us lead our lives with peace of mind.

Although he too was heading to work, Shahid was glad he wasn't dragging himself off to some office job. Shahid's view: anybody who had to wear a suit to work died a little inside, every day.

If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience... It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.

I can say I have become far more open about what I believe.

It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the person to be subsumed into the group.

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.