Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.

With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.

They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.

When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.

I love people and I love to be around people.

I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.

Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.

I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.

I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt.

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.

My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.

At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.

Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.

Everything comes to you in the right moment. Be patient. Be grateful.

My family is my biggest critic. Since they come from a non-filmi background, they give me an audience's point of view. They have been very supportive of me.

I was just used to being in shape, and getting out of it was really difficult for me.

I dont get embarrassed easily and I do silly things all the time

Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily.

If you believe in gravity you already believe in something higher than yourself.

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable.

It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.

No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.

Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.

I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.

There are notes between notes, you know.

My partner and I had our first son in 1996, and the office became the baby's room. Our second son was born in 2001, and the office became the kids' room.

Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long held false hope.

I didn't see many films until I was in college teaching.

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

You may have bipolar disorder but it does not have you. It cannot have you because I have claimed you and I dont share.

The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.

It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.

Sarah Palin's a quitter.

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