When you're a young kid and you come into the NHL, you're given money and fame, to an extent, especially in Boston.

I've always been the kind of guy to take it day by day with not a whole lot of worries.

A lot of things can happen in a year's time.

There's a difference between having an edge and being stupid.

I play with good players. So it makes it a lot easier when you're playing with the guys I'm able to play with.

I think the biggest thing in my game is my confidence.

At the end of the day, we all play for one reason and that's to win.

It's tough to lose, but it's a lot tougher to lose knowing how good it is to win, how good it feels to win.

I'd rather take 30 points and win a Cup than I would 100 points and not win.

I have a huge interest in ancient Egyptian times and the mummies and the kings and all that.

You can't plan your future.

We rush through this career and it ends abruptly for the most part.

I remember being 20 years old and I'm living by myself for the first time with my buddies and what you're worried about day to day is what am I going to eat for dinner? I don't know how to cook, so I've got to get canned food. Those are the only worries you have in the world.

I'm not a big poker guy, I like to play shnarps.

I'm not great at trying new things.

I have to play hard and at the end of the day I still have to strive to protect myself and so does everybody in the league.

Well, I'm a small guy.

I play low to the ice and that's a way I've protected myself in the past - I just felt that it was better to be safe than sorry.

In playoffs, it's so emotional and the tension's really high and guys are laying everything on the line. And when you do that, things get chippy and guys are playing aggressively, and I think it just comes out in the playoffs a little more. When you know what's on the line and what you're expected to do, it just comes out.

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.