A month before the season I stop putting ketchup on my french fries.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

We feel that, with Sidney, we have a great opportunity over the next few years to put a great team on the ice. We're prepared to lose some money along the way. Eventually we're going to need some help.

I didn't like the way the game was being played.

I think that with a lot of hard work and dedication, I feel that I could be the best in the world. I'm still only 35 years old... I have a fresh start physically and mentally, and I feel that I can achieve my goal to be the best again.

All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly.

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

It's up to the community now to decide if they want to keep this team.

Well, I think just a desire to come back and be a part of the game again.

Of course, my family has been a big reason for me to come back, especially my son who loves the game of hockey - he was a big reason for me coming back.

As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.

The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career.

A month before the season I stop putting ketchup on my french fries.

My body's feeling it a little bit. But one good thing, my back is in good shape, and that's my main concern. I know that my legs are going to take awhile to get back to where I was a few years ago, but as long as my back is solid, I feel that I can play many years.

I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.

When I'm able to see the ice ahead of time when I get the puck, I'm able to make some pretty good plays.

One thing I hate is people screaming at me. If you want me to do something, talk to me.

When someone screams at me to hurry up, I slow down.

I'm only 35, and I felt that the time was right to try to come back and have a chance for him to see me play.

I think the game has opened up, and that's why I decided to come back and try to be a part of it.

Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.

Oh, I did stop smoking a long time ago.

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played.

I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life.

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

Everybody I talked to - from my friends to my family and some of the players - really gave me a lot of support from the start. And that certainly made me feel good about trying to come back and be one of the best again.

Depending on how we start the season, I can play center or wing... It doesn't matter to me.

Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be.

I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world.

I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight.

My son, he is the reason I got involved. It's been a joy to be around him and teach him the stuff that I know, and to the other kids as well. When he started playing I wanted to be involved in his hockey career. It's a lot of fun for both of us.

We, as a league, must do a better job of protecting the integrity of the game and the safety of our players.

When it comes to hockey, it's been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level.

Hockey is a tough physical game and it always should be.

I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.

When I started writing the music, I wanted everything to be consistent from the way I dressed to the way I presented myself online. I wanted everything to match what I was doing on stage.

The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the mess that it will create.

I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons.

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

The landscape in Ireland is just - I've never been in such a beautiful place with the lakes and ocean and everything.

In a way, advertising, for all its shallowness, its love of design, its modishness and its self-justification, is curiously innocent. The idea of the hidden persuader or the manipulator is largely absurd.

My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

The state security bodies should not be seen as an institution that works against society and the state; one needs to understand what makes them work against their own people.

It doesnt take a language long to disappear once the spirit to continue with it leaves its community. In fact the speed of the decline has been one of the main findings of recent linguistic research.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'