Canadian Quotes

I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.

I don't think I'd change the path that's got me where I am today.

I cry at movies.

Hopefully, my teammates will say that I was important and that I gave it everything and I didn't leave anything to chance my whole career. To be mentioned as Hall-worthy is a great thing.

Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.

Everybody ticks differently, but family is very important for me.

Anytime you've played in a place and you get a win against your old team, it feels good.

Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.

A happy player is a good player, I think.

Like most parents, I want everything for my kids that I didn't have. But I don't intend to spoil them. I just enjoy everything that comes naturally with parenthood.

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

People, of all ages, are far more open than you might think to being moved in new ways.

My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.

I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

You need a very, exceptionally clear vision. And to me, a vision is something that you can say in one sentence. The fewer the words the better.

You can motivate by a mission or motivate by money. The mission will work.

We need different perspectives here in Washington - someone who has private-sector experience, somebody who's actually created jobs, manufactures products, understands the incentives and disincentives, the intended and unintended consequences of legislation.

We have seven months before the election. Our top priority as fiscal conservatives is to make sure President Obama retires.

This is nothing negative about the other candidates. It's just a recognition of the fact that Governor Romney has won more delegates. He's the only person that really has a chance to take the winning number of delegates into the convention.

The reason Apple is really good, I think, and the reason their stores succeeded, is not just 'cause we know the big idea, but we have a real passion for the littlest detail. It's legendary in our products.

The only things that haven't worked for me are when I've held back. There's no reason to sell an idea short. The only risk would be to not fulfill the dream.

The core value that differentiates Apple is our ability to innovate.

Pricing is actually a pretty simple and straight forward thing. Customers will not pay literally a penny more than the true value of the product.

It's always about mindshare, not market share.