Orr is the greatest young hockey player that's come along since I've been here.
Hockey is not a sport - it's a disease.
When no one else signs me.
Fifty percent of the game is mental and the other 50 percent is being mental. I've got that part down, no problem.
People didn't know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.
What scares me is how easily it happened.
I remember what Ron Greschner said when he retired. 'The thing I'm going to miss most is showering with 23 guys. ' And that's what it's all about: camaraderie.
NHL is the best league in the world and I feel that I should play in the best league in the world. Money's not an issue and you cannot buy happiness.
I'm hoping for a bench clearing brawl during the warm up so I can go out and grab his stick.
If I'd known it was going to take 25 years, I'd have started earlier.
I'm looking forward to playing against Sidney Crosby as much as I am looking forward to playing against all of the other players in the NHL. And there is no rivalry.
The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. . . . That's a pretty scary thought.
Eight days ago, we were the toast of the town. Eight days later we're Thanksgiving turkeys.
It is an immense privilege to be able to play in the NHL. I was very blessed and a lot of things went my way to be able to make it.
It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.
When you take off that sweater, your jersey, after today's game, you will be the last player in the NHL to ever wear 99. You have always been and you will always be 'The Great One,' and there will never be another.
I think any time you play your first NHL game, you remember that.
The greatest athletes in the world play in the NHL there is no question about that.
Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.
It would have been worse if we hadn't blocked the kick after Toronto's second touchdown.