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I do feel the weight of being the steward of the greatest sport the world ever came up with. I grew up with a love and admiration for it, so I feel an obligation to portray it as electric and terrifying and exciting and beautiful, and all these sometimes contradicting things that make hockey what it is.

I do hang out with girls, I do relax. But I am a hermit sometimes and get a bit too introverted, too 'Jean-Paul Sartre' and intellectual in my head. And it's like a Kafka novel in there, things get nuts. Then I have to remind myself to get out and I will go and play ice hockey with my friends.

I don't care what people say about me and what they think about me. I care about my team and I care about myself. Lots of people watch hockey, and I think everybody has different thinking.

I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie.

I don't fear stopping a 100 mph slap shot. I fear not stopping it!

I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.

I don't know where the loyalty lies in baseball. You really don't have to protect each other much, unless there's like a bench-clearing brawl. In hockey, it's important that they look out for each other.

I don't like hockey. I'm just good at it.

I don't order fries with my club sandwich.

I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates.

I don't think the summer is short. I would rather play hockey than work out in the gym. It would be tougher if summer was longer. You have your two or three weeks to take off. You have plenty of time to go back and see family and friends. I don't want summer to be any longer.

I don't think you ever stopped Bobby Orr. You contained Bobby Orr, but you never stopped him. When we played the Bruins and Bobby had to give up the puck, it was a good play.

I don't train to look good in the mirror. I train to make improvements in my game.

I don't think you can really expect to win a hockey game giving up three power-play goals. In reality, you cant give up those and that's the difference in the hockey game.

I'd say there's 100 percent of the guys who think they're in the 25 percent.

I don't want to get into a 'he said, she said' with the refs...I'm the he.

I don't want to get into being too hockey centered, but I just felt like the late 70's and 80's into the 90's was the right time period to tell the story.

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.

I feel honored and privileged to have represented the USA program over the past 16 years. USA Hockey will always be a part of me and I will cherish the experiences and memories with this team.

If I'd known it was going to take 25 years, I'd have started earlier.

If I can be half the hockey player that Bobby Orr was, I'll be happy.

If I get run into again, I'm taking someone with me. I lost one knee. I'll take a head if it happens again.

If I'm playing hockey, I want to win all the (trophies) I can.

If I weren't acting, I think I'd want to be a professional hockey player.

I find that I've tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the same time, I've also made it a point to increase or grow in some other area of my life. If I were just playing hockey, I would probably be done with the sport.

I focus on the dumbness of Hagelin... He played a hell of a game but that's all washed off from dumbness.

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.

If the government is to try and ban private consumption of alcohol and tobacco, it must surely ban such activities as hang-gliding, skiing, rock-climbing and so on. Where should it stop? Rugby? American Football? Ice Hockey? Insofar as the government has information not generally available about the merits or demerits of the items we ingest or the activities we engage in, let it give us the information. But let it leave us free to choose what chances we want to take with our own lives.

If people see North American hockey and they see violence and brutality and it's not so interesting, that sends a message too about your culture.

I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was.

If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

If you make one mistake, it can result in vasectomy.

If you can't beat 'em in the alley, you can't beat 'em on the ice.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

If We Lose...We're All Screwed.

I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk. It must be working, because we haven't lost a game yet.

If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.

I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, "You can like Mozart and ice hockey..." - and then I used to say "golf," but Tiger took over golf! - "and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.

If you're built like a freight train, you can't drive around like a Volkswagen.

If you've only got one day to live, come see the Toronto Maple Leafs. It'll seem like forever.

I grabbed it and squeezed it back into place. It gave a little crunch and popped right in.

I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.

I had a few fights last year, but I need to take boxing lessons. I need to, because in the NHL it's required.

I guess the prime example is in North America there's a thing where if there's no opportunity to move forward with the puck, then a [hockey] player is told to dump the puck into the other zone. Just give up the puck and dump it in. Give it to the other team. And to the Soviet mentality in coaching, it just doesn't make any sense. If you're a skilled player, why are you going to give the puck away to the other team? Just give it away, right?

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

I had a lot of fun in those days. It was a great experience being in the Eastern Hockey League for the simple reason that you did not have a staff.