Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

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.

If you're going to help somebody, sneak in, sneak out, do what you can. I just sneak along and do my thing and meet wonderful people, some people I've never met, new friends.

There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.

Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.

I always tell Bobby he was up in the air so so long that I had had time to shower and change before he hit the ice.

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