As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.

There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off.

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.

I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it.

I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children.

We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time.

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.

The 70's hair with the long on the sides, just doesn't look good coming down the sides of the helmet.

We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.

We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games.

I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.

Darren McCarty is a big video game guy, and he brings his systems with him on the road.

It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.

And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.

I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.

I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.

I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit.

When it gets to this point, it's just hard to pull the trigger.

Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly.

I don't know if I've ever had a memorable body check. It's not really part of my game.

It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.

I don't know that I'd agree I was our best player.

I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.

Playoff hockey is the best way to market your team. It's the best way to grow your fan base and give hope to your players and for them to develop.

Tomorrow is another opportunity to relentlessly and confidently push harder with your dream. You definitely haven't given it your all until you are living in its reality.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Entertainment is such a non-reality.

I call 2015 a year of deconstruction. I needed to deconstruct myself, my businesses, and find all of the holes in my empire. I had to find holes and fill them with people who could do it better.

We, 'Psych,' saved America. That's the tag line.

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships.

You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.

From the very first instances of perception some things are grateful and others unwelcome to us some things we incline to and others we fly.

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.

Autumn colors remind us we are all one dancing in the wind.

I dont like to watch golf on television because I cant stand people who whisper.

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much.