Czechoslovakian Quotes

The players don't play the position game as much as we used to play. A lot of young guys go up and down, shoot the puck, go for the rebounds. You're getting tired quicker because the body has to react where the puck is going to go. You cannot read it, because you don't have the puck on your stick.

People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.

My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.

Many European guys go to the N.H.L. at a young age, even without knowing English. But they quickly adapt to new conditions, another game, a new country. They are also young, receptive, can move mountains.

It's tough in the NHL; you have to produce on a high level. And everybody expects you to do it because you make a lot of money. And I never minded it. I always want to be that guy.

In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.

In the K.H.L., you're even more patient at your position because the rink is so big, you cannot play that way.

If I was on a third or fourth line I would probably be in the NHL, because you don't have to produce every night.

I'm not 21 and trying to prove something with my words.

I like the pressure.

I don't really care how we done it, we done it.

First of all, when I was making the decision, I never thought that Pittsburgh fans would want me back. Every time I played there, they were booing me every time I touched the puck. I didn't think it would be such a big deal that I didn't sign with Pittsburgh.

Don't forget, I'm 39. I didn't come here just for the money to impress myself. I'm not saying I am going to be dominating. I'm not saying I'm going to be good. But I can promise you I will do all the right things to play.

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.