Lord help the mister that comes between me and my sister.
I'm a guy who works very hard and if I want something bad enough, I'm going to do anything possible to get it.
Staying away from junk food and the pops-it's something that, for me, is harder than doing the actual workouts. It's so easy to get off-track. Like when you're out with your buddies and they're stopping at McDonald's. You can't have a Big Mac with them.
I don't see this as Marty [St. Louis] replacing me. I see this as Marty getting the opportunity he deserves.
Knowing your coach has confidence in you is big for a young player.
My parents, especially my dad, had a big influence on my hockey career. He introduced me to the game when I was younger, and I stuck with it.
I came into the League at 18-years-old. I didn't have a lot of experience in training the right way. I probably came into the league at 175 pounds; now I'm 190. . . It's all about training the right way and training for my needs.
The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist's feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian's scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled.
The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.
I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.
Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.