“I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.”

We’re going to have more kids playing, and we’re going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.

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.

So many of today’s programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that’s a big mistake.

Blood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow ’cause there’s no one left to beat.

I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You’re being paid to play a game! That’s pretty special.

I didn’t want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn’t going to do one.

I couldn’t wait to get on the ice. I couldn’t wait to get to practice. As a kid I couldn’t wait to shoot pucks or play in parking lots, or play on the river or play on the bay.

Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.

On sheer ability, Mario is good enough to win scoring titles with a broken stick. On pure talent, he’s the best there is. But Wayne almost never disappoints you. He comes to work every night.

I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I’d finished playing, I had to go to work.

We’re professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there’s some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that’s a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that.

You never know how a single interaction with a person might affect their life, so you must constantly try to be at your best.

I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.

The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. … That’s a pretty scary thought.

People didn’t know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.

I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn’t even know it existed.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere.

I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can’t cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen.

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.