“Whenever I won an award in the NHL, I thought of my father and the pri...” — Jacques Plante Quote

Whenever I won an award in the NHL, I thought of my father and the pride he would get in reading about it and having people mention it to him.

You had no mask, and the coach kept telling you, 'Use your head.' And I did.

All of us kids in the neighbourhood had to go shoeless for the same reason - all except the landlord's son, because his father had more income.

Someday, I'm going to learn to knit with my feet.

How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

An award or an honour from the government is always welcomed any time.

I'm an ensemble guy, I guess - that comes from the theater. If I ever won some kind of award someday, I imagine I'd try to be very gracious, but in the end, I just want to keep working. I don't see why that, if you just put your mind to it and keep sowing the right seeds, you can't keep doing the things you want to do.

After winning the World Cup and the European Footballer of the Year award too, I do not think I can ask for anything else.

To map the Governor General's Award is to map both the past and the future of Canadian literature, and to be nominated for my first book is wonderful.