When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.
Play every game as if it is your last one.
In the NHL, 95 percent of success is confidence.
The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.
I really love my family and kid, but first of all, it's my hockey, my career. My family is second, and my fans go third. Sometimes my fans go second, and my family is third. It's turning all the time.
Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.
You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.
That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.
People say that I must get bothered when someone stops me for an autograph or a photo. I'll get bothered when no one asks me. Being asked means people haven't forgotten the time I played.
I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.
That's the key to win a lot of games: you have to pull the wagon together, and everybody has to give 100 per cent, and that's how you're going to win games.
Hockey is not a one-man show; it's a team effort. If you don't work as a team - even if one or two guys aren't working - you're not going to win. That's the way it is.
I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everything as a kid to stay in shape - jogging, work on the farm, driving the tractor. I'll never forget.
Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.
I was impressed all my life. Because of the Montreal Canadiens' past, it means a lot because it was a team I cherished as a kid. It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.
I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain my confidence, maybe the most important thing. I have learned a lot to relax. I know what I can do now, and I do it.
My night is over only when there are no more photos to take and nothing left to sign.
It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.
Most of life is sad.
I went out almost every night with the guys on the team between 1975 and 1981. We were winning in those years. It was fun.
