"Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted"

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days"

"The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life"

"It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day"

"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day"

"I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame"

"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk"

"I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you"

"Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time"

"These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up"