I can't remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in baseball now than they do in hockey.

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.

People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog.

People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles.

As a player, you have one responsibility, to focus yourself and be ready for the game. As a coach, your responsibility is to get 20 guys ready and have them all on the same page. If you can't get every guy ready every night, you're going to struggle.

Good players skate to the puck. Great players skate to where the puck is going to be.

The best players in the game want the responsibility of being the best player. The reality is the game has changed from now back to '87. It's a lot tighter checking. The players are better today. So, that makes it harder for him just in that fact. We can't rely solely on Mario [Lemieux] to carry this team. We're not relying on that.