There's always room for every player to improve.

The leadership group I had to follow is very easy to walk in their footsteps and try to be like them. You try and set that same example for the guys coming up.

I've always been a guy that worked hard.

There's so much to benefit from being able to control your mind in certain situations and it just keeps you even-keel all the time when things are going well and when they're not. That's one thing that I've always had a bit of a tough time doing. When I get up, I get excited. When I'm down, I get pretty frustrated.

The mind is such a powerful thing, and when you learn how to control that it really turns a lot of things around.

I just remember I'd snap over little things when I was younger a lot. It was more just trying to control yourself in certain situations and learn how to harness that anger.

There are a lot of things people want to look at, pick apart my game, but if you could put any of them in my position, to do anything to make their dream come true... I'm pretty damn sure they'd do it, too.

I had to play a certain way to get in the league. That's kind of where I came from. I wouldn't change a thing going back, I wouldn't change anything that happened.

If I played the game any other way, you wouldn't know my name. You wouldn't care enough to hate me because I wouldn't be in the NHL.

If you take guys who have been off who have had very limited opportunity to work out and train and haven't skated in months, you can't just throw them back into games. Everyone's going to get hurt.

I don't bite the hand that feeds me. I'm a little smarter than that.

The last thing I want to do is anything to hurt the team.

Both my grandfathers were in the Navy, and I have cousins and uncles in the military, so it's something that I've always respected.

Growing up, I had military members in my family.

Growing up, your whole goal and dream is to make the NHL. Once you get there, you kind of have to expand your goals on and off the ice. It took a little bit of time for me to do that, but again, with age and maturity you understand what you want more and how to achieve those things.

If you are not playing for the Stanley Cup at the end of the year, what's the point? If you don't win, you may as well not make the playoffs, because you are loser just like everyone else.

I don't play in spite of people, I play for the people who pushed me along, the people who have helped me succeed.

I can never say enough good things about Boston.

There's going to be ups, there's going to be downs and you're going to have to roll with the punches.

You want to stay even-keel. When you get too high, when you get too low, that's when things tend to go wrong.

When you win the Cup, you need everything to line up. You need to get lucky, you need guys to stay healthy, you need guys to play well at the right time.

Halifax is a big hockey city. Everyone loves the game here and really enjoys anyone who has had success.

It's always a lot easier when you have people around you supporting you.

My dad's always been a coach and one of my coaches.