As for my career, I always said to my kids, 'You don't cry because it's over, you're happy because it happened.' That's the main thing. I'm very happy that it happened.
Pat BurnsPeople were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
Pat BurnsAn avowed homosexual, that would never be accepted in hockey - never! Because it's a milieu where everyone is often naked.
Pat Burns