You can always become better.
I started as a fourth-line fighter, went to being a third-line centre, then a second-line winger and a first-line centre. I've played every role there is, and the only thing that matters is helping the team win.
I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant.
Biologically, I'm 10. Chronologically, I'm 33. In hockey years, I'm 66.
But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.
Coaching really is an individual philosophy.
We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time.
And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food.
How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.
Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.
The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. . . . The artist is obliged to keep his laughter and tears to himself. If they want to emerge, in spite of himself, then he must hide them or unleash them in someone else.