There are a lot of leg strains on the inside of the legs. There's a lot of pressure on your legs and knees. Shoulders are another big thing. We play a physical sport and those are the areas that go.

The fan support isn't the biggest but they're very loyal and very supportive. It's a very good group of fans and I enjoy playing in front of them.

We try to get our quick feet and our hands going for the games and we spend a couple of days in the gym.

Somebody who's learning how to ice skate for the first time would need skates, a helmet for head protection and elbow pads, because you do fall quite a bit.

A piece of advice his father had given him surfaced in Edgar's mind. Sometimes, he had said, it's better just to keep quiet and think with your heart.

There are things, also, that are memories as essential and structural as bones in toes and fingers.

It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.

Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

Adversity is a stimulus.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.

I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so.