“I was 14 when I lost them [his front teeth]. The main thing was, we won that game, so I was the happiest. You hate to lose your teeth and the game, too.”

You don’t ever lose your dream. You don’t give that up. I tell that to the players. If you don’t have dreams, you don’t have anything to live for.

I never killed anyone with my tuba.

What cracks me up is people who think I don’t take baseball seriously. It’s the most important thing in my life. They don’t know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can’t, but I’m getting better.

I don’t spend a lot of time here in New York. I didn’t realize there were so many Bruins fans in New York.

I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.

What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you’ve got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety.

Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.

Don’t count your eggs until the chicken’s laid them.

It’s a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.

Four turnovers. Two assists. I told him he’d have the game ball if he had taken care of the ball a little bit better.