What you want to do with your best players is, it doesn't matter how many goals and assists they get, but when they get goals and assists. The best players get them at the most important times, and that's when we need those guys to come through.

I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It's what I love the most.

I miss 100% of the shots I don't take.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

You know, I've held women and babies and jewels and money, but nothing will ever feel as good as holding that Cup.

Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, 'This is what we're going to do,' and bought an annuity with it.

When you're playing an exhibition, you're kind of letting everyone get an opportunity.