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.

I've always been a guy that's worked hard off the ice and prepared the right way and I feel like I can play those minutes, can play power play and PK and 5-on-5 and I've worked hard to make sure my stamina's up so I can play those minutes.

When the team does well we all do well.

When your team does well and you're winning then everyone has success from that. You see that with all Cup-winning teams. Those guys end up having long careers.

When you're out there and you see how excited the kids get to talk to you and how much they enjoy watching us play, it's really touching and I think we all appreciate what we do so much more when you see the excitement that you bring; especially with the kids.

When we do, when we're playing physical and we're playing tight, playing with emotion, we play well.