"Then come at once and pause for breath In chasing wealth. Remembering death And death's dark fires, mix, while you may, Method and madness, work and play. Folly is sweet, well-timed."

"The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance."

"I shall not wholly die and a great part of me will escape the grave"

"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the "body "drags the mind down with it."

"You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers"

"[Starting for the Canadian Olympic team has given Martin Brodeur a distinct advantage. He was the first goalie to get the NHL's newly legislated smaller pads, pants, and other gear.] Goalies that like to react to pucks won't have a problem, ... Those goalies that block shots instead of stopping shots, will find it's going to be a little tougher for them, especially in close."

"[Devils netminder Martin Brodeur said the team is prepared for Stevens' absence, having learned how to play without him for much of the last NHL season.] We got used to not having him around, ... We really have a sense of what it's going to be like without Scott Stevens. At the same time we're going to have to learn about life without Scott Niedermayer, too. It's two tough blows to take..."

"Definitely it was key not having him around. We took advantage of him not being around. That's good."

"I saw everybody in front of me, and their eyes were going crazy. It was a scary five or six seconds. They finally told us there was a mechanical problem and they couldn't get the plane in the air."

"He's not the quickest guy out there. He does it with experience. And you can't buy experience."

"It was a good experience for me just to meet him. He's a real gentleman, a nice guy. There's not a bad thing I could say about the guy."

"We've still got a lot of time before they exercise their option."

"It is important that we have a balanced squad, youth blending with experience."

"He's a young guy. When you have the privilege of playing for the greatest hockey country, there are only so many players. It's not that he's not worth being there, it's just because he's in a situation that Team Canada has a new wave of young players."

"We're going to get through this crisis we have now."

"Definitely, it's a little crisis. It's not the end of the world."

"I think there was a big transition in Canada, having younger guys being part of Team Canada now. I think it's nice we had a chance to perform with each other. At least you don't come in and it's a brand-new atmosphere. Now Team Canada has been doing these pre-Olympic training camps in the summer also, where we got together. I think everybody's really anxious to see each other again."

"This is going to be such a huge event for my family, my friends. It's going to be such a fun experience. My dad won a bronze in 1956 and now, 50 years later, going back to the same country, I'm going to try and win a medal as well."

"While you're fighting for a playoff spot, you might as well try to get the best spot possible."

"[The NHL testing] just started in January, so it's OK. It's flushed out of his body, but from now on, the guy's got to be careful. Everybody is educated now. It's not like you don't know. Now, you have to know. That's your responsibility as an athlete. I think his was just an unfortunate situation that happened to him that's really isolated -- I hope."

"My skate got caught and I twisted it. I heard it twist and I couldn't get up. All my body weight fell on it. I had to be really hurt to leave the game. We were still in the game at that point."

"I don't think you can blame the new guys for the way we've been playing."

"We're going to have a good competition and that's what you want."

"We have no excuse to not get back to where we were at or even better. I think the competition will be greater from now on because of the stretch drive. Some teams are going to try to secure playoff spots. Some teams are going to try to get back in the mix. Some teams, like us, are trying to stay alive and move up with the big guys."

"I could have stayed in. It was my choice. When the team is struggling, why be in there for the sake of being there?"

"Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. Horace"

"Struggling to be brief I become obscure."

"Humour is often stronger and more effective than sharpness in cutting knotty issues."

"Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money."

"I had rather seem mad and a sluggard, so that my defects are agreeable to myself, or that I am not pinfully conscious of them, than be wise, and chaptious."

"Treacherous ashes hide The fires through which you stride"

"This is a fault common to singers that among their friends they were never inclined to sing when they were asked, unasked they never desist."

"If you wish me to weep, you yourself Must first feel grief."

"Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat. (Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)"

"He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!"

"This was huge, especially against a team like that. Hopefully, we'll build some confidence and get some momentum going forward."

"The team has the confidence to throw me in the net every night and that makes it a lot easier when you know you're going to get over 65 starts every year."

"Some of the stuff he would tell us was really out of character."

"I think it's funny that we have to answer these things (about Gretzky). After all, the highlight of our lives is playing in the Olympics right now. It's a great opportunity to compete at the highest standard of hockey. So for people to waste their time asking these questions, we just brush them off and move on."

"I rode the wave for a while and it was fun, but you can understand now why I was saying I was not for [the shootout] when I was winning. This is the reason why. I thought we played a decent hockey game and everybody's bummed out."

"It was fun to play the game again. It's going to be the same for every team. Everybody is in the same boat. It's like riding a bicycle, you go back to it and it's like you never left it."

"I played 25 minutes and 35 minutes in two games. I shouldn't be tired. I'm tired of getting scored on."

"[More insulting still, the New Jersey Devils declined to stay in Ottawa between Games 1 and 2 of their Stanley Cup semifinal series against the Senators last week, flying home to spend 48 hours in the relative Babylon of East Rutherford.] If you look around, ... there's not much to do around here."

"It went our way for three games. It could go the other way for three games, also."

"It's like preseason now. I guess maybe a memo was sent down to call games tighter again."

"He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."

"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. (Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)"

"He gets every vote who combines the useful with the pleasant, and who, at the same time he pleases the reader, also instructs him."

"Either stick to tradition or see that your inventions be consistent."

"There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed."