When you're young, you don't realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.

Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.

If you're going to help somebody, sneak in, sneak out, do what you can. I just sneak along and do my thing and meet wonderful people, some people I've never met, new friends.

Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.

There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.

I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You're being paid to play a game! That's pretty special.