This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided.

We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our industry for their livelihoods.

This is a tragedy for the players. Their careers are short and this is money and opportunity they'll never get back.

It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.

The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

My feeling is that contracts should always be honored. ... This is a situation where a legally binding contract is not being honored and that's not right.

Any ham-handed idiot can make a woman scream. I prefer to assess…responsiveness.

I live in my mind, such that whatever destroys me shall be a creature of my own invention.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya.

Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.

I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well.

The best way to serve God is by going in search of your own dreams. Only the happy can spread happiness.

What I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being.

I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer wants that, he should call other people. Not me.

Now a soldier's spirit is keenest in the morning; by noonday it has begun to flag; and in the evening, his mind is only on returning to camp.