Any free meal is a good meal, you know?

When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.

Any free meal is a good meal, you know?

After 20 years in the game, I was fortunate to get away from the game and enjoy my family, which was great for me.

As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics.

Here in Denver, we want to thank Jeremy Jacobs for the way he runs his business. Otherwise, we wouldn't have gotten Ray Bourque and won a Stanley Cup.

Hockey has given me everything, most importantly it brought me to Swift Current, where I met my wife Deb.

I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go.

I always said to myself that the minute I thought I'd slipped, and not be the player I wanted to be, it was time for me to go.

I didn't know that I'd like it this much, coaching both boys and coming out all the time and seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice.

I'm just happy I got a hole-in-one for the first time in my life.

I'm leaving the game of hockey with nothing but great memories.

If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.

My e-mail address is actually my wife's e-mail address. I actually hate computers.

Obviously there are not too many people who get a chance to play in the Olympics in their hometown. That would be something special, but going into the summer you have to be realistic with yourself, and health-wise and motivation-wise you have to be willing to do what it takes.

Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.

The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.

The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.

The time of year I love the weather the most here is the fall, and I've never really gotten to experience the mountains and Denver in the fall because I was always playing and traveling.

To be honest, I don't care how it went in.

To play in the Olympics, to play for your country, there's nothing like it. You love doing it and I'm looking forward to it again. We're all looking forward to trying to win another gold.

When you think of Canada, you think of hockey and you think of Wayne Gretzky.

You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.

You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.

You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.

Writing is much more satisfying on a certain level than acting ever was. Because you're not interpreting someone else's original idea, you can come up with your own.

Most of the worst things said about me, I've said myself.

Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's a length of time it's supposed to be. The restrictions of budget and sets can be really useful. When you can have everything, it's very hard to make things feel real and lived in.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

Charm is an innate quality of mind and heart and an expression of a beautiful attitude toward life. Courtesy can be cultivated but charm is largely an unconscious possession.

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

As I see it, my focus has never been on masculine power rampant and triumphant but rather on the antithesis: masculine power impaired.

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.

What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.

All the world loves a good loser.

I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.

Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.

Pay disparity has always been there.

Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture.

Reagan cut through irrational federal regulations to allow children to live with their parents, where they could receive care that would cost the taxpayer one-sixth as much as institutional care. By contrast, Obamacare has added thousands of pages of bureaucratic regulations and will cost the federal government untold billions.

My neighborhood now is all 21-year-old European supermodels. I go to the international newsstand on the corner, and they're all looking for their pictures in 'Italian Vogue.'

I need to reach a lot of people to sell records.

It's amazing how many things you can do when you're just pretending.

When youre older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.

I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.