Right now I'm happy to be on the ice anywhere, anytime.
I might have practiced stick-handling with my head up a bit more.
I look forward to proving something to myself and others.
It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.
I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past.
When you ask for the house, car, cat, dog and all the fish when you're dealing with a player who's got questions about his health, no GM in his right mind is going to say yes and offer to clean the aquarium, too.