Athlete Quotes

Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way.

You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.

When you are no longer a boy, you have to be tough.

Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.

No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

I can run free here. I can go back to being a kid.

Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL.

The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.

The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.

The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in.

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

It's nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents.

It's nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it's kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause.

I would compare that to when I first started with the Montreal Canadiens; it was a big family then, where the guys really stuck together and worked like a unit. But when I came back in '88, it was not like that anymore.

I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everything as a kid to stay in shape - jogging, work on the farm, driving the tractor. I'll never forget.

I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.

After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two.

A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.

Play every game as if it is your last one.

I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain my confidence, maybe the most important thing. I have learned a lot to relax. I know what I can do now, and I do it.

Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried.

When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.

What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.

They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.

Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.

I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?

I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.

I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.