The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

I wasn't a great skater and I needed my skates to be perfect - really tight around the ankles. But I couldn't break in new ones because my feet would hurt so much. I wore a size 9 shoe and a 6.5 skate - my foot was really crunched.

I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it [achieve something], they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.

And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.

Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

I'm probably the only guy in hockey who can win a scoring title and everybody is saying I had a bad year. I don't worry about it.