Scoring a goal is a euphoric feeling-and it's not so much the puck going in. It's the reaction from your teammates, the opponents and the fans-like, to shut up a crowd or to have your fans go berserk is the greatest feeling. It makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Sometimes I think the league is just stifling itself, and I want people just to think and wonder... I talk all the time about how when I retire I want to be a part of the game.

Sometimes we don't handle adversity real well. There's frustration, from last night.

I've only told Wayne Gretzky not to do one thing, and he didn't listen to me so I would never tell him not to do anything again,

I've never repeated, you know? We went to the finals back-to-back in Dallas, but we didn't win the second time. We lost in the final to Jersey. But if you have the same group, because of the knowledge you have, yeah, I think the journey is easier.

I've committed myself to be this type of player. Bitch and moan as I may, I've committed myself to it, and I'm going to stay committed to it until I'm done, because they gave me a chance to win the ultimate goal. I'll never forget them for that.

I've been sitting waiting the whole year. Since ninth grade I wondered what I'd do after high school. They say they want me, I'm there.

I should have been a child of the '60s.

There's nothing like a personal story to bring home how important the work is that you do. It's easy for me to say you do a great job, but if a patient, a family member comes back and says you made a difference, there's nothing like that.

There's no one more competitive, ... He's the ultimate champion and competitor. He's going to have to really fight that when things don't go as great as he wants them to. I think it's going to help us players to have that. He's not going to settle for people going through the motions or not executing.