We always play better when we play with emotion.

You need young guys to come in and play like older guys, really help the team and produce.

If we want to be a good team, you have to learn how to practice every day.

It'd be better if I was 6-2, 220, but I'll work with what I've got.

Being an agitator gives me an opportunity to draw penalties against the other team. That's one part that brings emotion to my game.

My dad was a big grinder, a tough guy. I inherited that from him.

It's tough being a small player. You don't want to be known as a guy who goes into the corner and loses 50 percent of the battles.

I'm a lot smaller than most guys, so I have to make up with grittiness and show I can work the hardest, show I'm strong on my skates and show I can push some people around.

There are great players who go unnoticed because they're not on the best teams.

I have to play a bit of a physical game and try to work harder than everyone else.

I've won midget championships, a junior-league title, two World Junior Championships and some other minor-hockey championships, but I don't think teams win because I'm on them.

I can't be getting off my game. I need to be getting teams off their games.

I remember all the way back to atom, when I would be doing things I shouldn't be doing. It is just how I was. It just gets me involved in the game.

It isn't something I'm out there looking to do - take minor penalties.

Practice makes perfect and if you practice battling and competing and working hard, then that will transfer over in a game. If you practice just kind of floating around out there in practice, you know that's going to transfer over, too. So I think the harder you work and the more you compete, then that's how you're going to play in a game.

I was always taught growing up that great players show up to big games.

Winning and losing, it sticks with you forever.

You don't forget everything that happens when you win, and you definitely don't forget what happens when you lose.

Boston has become my second home. I absolutely love it there.

We're all friends, me and the refs.

I'm not always a rat. Sometimes it just comes out.

Maybe playing around and having fun is considered being a rat... I guess I'm a rat.

Deep down I think I'm a lovable guy.

I have been a Bruin since the start of my pro career and there is no place I would rather play.