5,260 Quotes About Sports

I consider the Detroit Red Wings one of the greatest franchises in any sport. For a player to come in and play, it's so special to wear the jersey.

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

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

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

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

The biggest challenges are in the same vein. It's about retaining all that stuff. Also, the physical stuff is not as easy as we originally thought. I play a lot of sports and I remember saying, "Oh, I'll be fine, running around or doing anything."

We penalize and suspend players for making contact with the head while checking, in an effort to reduce head injuries, yet we still allow fighting. We're stuck in the middle and need to decide what kind of sport do we want to be. Either anything goes and we accept the consequences, or take the next step and eliminate fighting.

Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right.