A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.
I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks.
Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.
There's no way I would have thought I would have had the career that I did and the longevity. Absolutely no idea.
It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.
I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past.
Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby.
I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You're being paid to play a game! That's pretty special.
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.
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.
We are all built differently. Some guys are more powerful. Some guys are very tall. I'm not very tall, so I rely on quickness.
How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?
Hockey has given me everything, most importantly it brought me to Swift Current, where I met my wife Deb.
An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.
