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How's the game changed in my 15 years in the league? Well, we used to be called hard-working players. Now we're overpaid crybabies.

Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself.

Hockey taught me to challenge myself and be the best I can be on and off the ice.

I always wanted to play professional hockey. Every hockey player's dream, no matter at what level or what age, is to play professionally. At first you don't know what it's all about, but you have that dream and you always work hard toward it. The older you get, the more you start dedicating yourself to the game.

Hullie's a lot like a garbage can. You step on the pedal with your foot and the top opens up.

I am 10 times smarter than everyone else in this game. Beyond a shadow of a doubt.

I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.

Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast.

I am not afraid to stop the puck with my head. I try to do it sometimes even in practice; not everyday but once in a while, I say to my teammates, shoot me in my head and I'll try to stop the puck. I am not afraid at all of the puck, so sometimes, if the shot comes at my head, it's an easier save to make with your head. Maybe the people think a different way, but for me, I do it with my head.

I am who I am. Life is too beautiful to be sad, to be depressed. The sun comes up every day and it's beautiful.

I basically made the movie from the crew's suggestions. For one scene, I wanted some kids' toys against the wall in Mikey's room, to give the scene texture, and we tried a field hockey stick. It looked really good to me, until someone had to say that in America, field hockey is more of a girl's game. Gradually I got tuned into the world - that happens on every movie.

I believe Bobby Orr had the greatest impact of any player to come along in my lifetime. He earned his place in hockey history by single handedly changing the game from the style played in my day. In my mind there can be no greater legacy.

I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.

I can't hear what Jeremy says because my ears are blocked with my two Stanley Cup Rings.

I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.

Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

I'd be lying to you if I said guys weren't afraid of him. I'm afraid of him, afraid of him running in to me.

I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.

I Didn't Drop My Gloves. They Were Pulled Off Me!

I can't wait for the crowd, the noise, the energy in the building. I can't wait to take that all away from them.

I didn't hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears.

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 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 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 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 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 order fries with my club sandwich.

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

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 like hockey. I'm just good at it.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.