My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.

The first time I met Wayne Gretzky... he never said anything back.

My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.

I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it in and the rink is going full-bore the last time I was there.

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.