Practice makes perfect and if you practice battling and competing and working hard, then that will transfer over in a game. If you practice just kind of floating around out there in practice, you know that's going to transfer over, too. So I think the harder you work and the more you compete, then that's how you're going to play in a game.
If you are not playing for the Stanley Cup at the end of the year, what's the point? If you don't win, you may as well not make the playoffs, because you are loser just like everyone else.
I remember being 20 years old and I'm living by myself for the first time with my buddies and what you're worried about day to day is what am I going to eat for dinner? I don't know how to cook, so I've got to get canned food. Those are the only worries you have in the world.
Especially young guys, it's always fun to see young guys come in and have that same enthusiasm about playing a certain way and fitting into a certain role and going after guys, trying to get them off their game.
When the team does well we all do well.
You want to stay even-keel. When you get too high, when you get too low, that's when things tend to go wrong.
Deep down I think I'm a lovable guy.
You don't forget everything that happens when you win, and you definitely don't forget what happens when you lose.
I want to stand up for what I believe in, and I don't think it's right when people say things or bash people because of their sexual orientation.
I don't play in spite of people, I play for the people who pushed me along, the people who have helped me succeed.
I mean, that's playoff hockey. You're not going to dominate every game, you're not going to score every goal.
I don't bite the hand that feeds me. I'm a little smarter than that.
We want to be better players than we do a pest, but you have to find something to do coming into the League.
There's going to be ups, there's going to be downs and you're going to have to roll with the punches.
Growing up, your whole goal and dream is to make the NHL. Once you get there, you kind of have to expand your goals on and off the ice. It took a little bit of time for me to do that, but again, with age and maturity you understand what you want more and how to achieve those things.
My dad was a big grinder, a tough guy. I inherited that from him.
I have friends who are in gay relationships and I don't think it's right for people to be against that.
I have been a Bruin since the start of my pro career and there is no place I would rather play.
Maybe playing around and having fun is considered being a rat... I guess I'm a rat.
I'm not always a rat. Sometimes it just comes out.
