“Maybe it wasn’t the talent the Lord gave me-maybe it was the passion.”

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

One hundred percent of shots not taken don’t go in.

Your friends, family, and kids have to understand that’s your priority. It’s the only way you can be successful.

People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog.

I’m probably the only guy in hockey who can win a scoring title and everybody is saying I had a bad year. I don’t worry about it.

It’s just amazing how many companies suddenly want you to hold up their products after you’ve held up the Stanley Cup.

He brings something special. I don’t know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn’t understand his answer.

The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.

When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn’t make the NHL. Now it’s kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can’t be a good coach because I was a great athlete.

You know, I’ve held women and babies and jewels and money, but nothing will ever feel as good as holding that Cup.

Canadian players have started to put more of an importance on the World Championships in the sense that as soon as they lose, they are called, they want to go play and they don’t go only on the basis of if they are injured.

I have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it’s a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you’re in the NHL.

I think the Americans are ready to play, they want to beat us. I think that players like Chris Chelios and his leadership over there goes a long way.

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.

When people come up to me and say, “I was at your Game 7 in the playoffs in Toronto,” or, “I saw your first goal in the NHL,” that triggers memories. But I don’t sit around my kitchen table and tell my kids, “You know, one year I got 92 goals.”

I think sports for kids is the greatest thing in the world because it teaches you how to share, about winning and losing and pressure. But I don’t think you should force your kid to become a professional athlete.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you’ll be the 10th loser.

The lesson I’ve learned the most often in life is that you’re always going to know more in the future than you know now.

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.

Everything happens for a reason.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.