Staal Quotes

#1. I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.

Rufus Wainwright

#2. Did someone just call me the wine dude?" he asked in a lazy drawl. "It's Bacchus, please. Or Mr. Bacchus. Or Lord Bacchus. Or, sometimes, Oh-My-Gods-Please-Don't-Kill-Me, Lord Bacchus.

Rick Riordan

#3. If our team is playing well and winning, it doesn't really matter to me if I am scoring points or not. For me though the more I can help offensively the better our chances are to win, so I just push myself to get better and hope it continues for the rest of the year.

Eric Staal

#4. Whatever I can do to help our team, whether it's defense or offense, I'm going to do it.

Eric Staal

#5. Being compared to him [Ron Francis] is pretty cool for me, but I know I am a long way away. I feel really comfortable at center, being able to roam the ice and do your thing.

Eric Staal

#6. I play hard and aggressive. I don't lay out the huge body checks because it's not really the style I play. But I love to be around the net and love battling corners and trying to dish pucks out.

Eric Staal

#7. I want to be that counted-on guy to score goals.

Eric Staal

#8. Man-centeredness is the universal religion of fallen man, and we are all dull fools to deny this.

Michael John Beasley

#9. Regardless of the faps in years, place and circumstance, women across the ages have had to negotiate the borders of their identities; in this, we find a common ground.

Stephanie Staal

#10. As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.

Buddy Rich

#11. Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light.

Saul Bellow

#12. Truth builds trust.

Marilyn Suttle

#13. If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

Hyman G. Rickover

#14. One of us is chained, none of us is free.

Solomon Burke

#15. The atmosphere at the different arenas has been pretty crazy. It's been a lot of fun coming to the rink every night and competing at this level and intensity. It's going to continue and get better.

Eric Staal

#16. We were written for one another, and I wouldn't change one line in our romance novel. The good, the bad, the in between. It's ours. We own it.

Gail McHugh

#17. At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#18. It's no fun losing a tooth or getting your face whacked by a stick.

Eric Staal

#19. If you approach Billy Martin right, he's Okay. I avoid him altogether.

Ron Guidry

#20. This is a tightly planned little house. He often feels protected by its smallness; there is hardly room enough here to feel lonely.

Christopher Isherwood

#21. You develop faith by doing things that require faith.

John H. Groberg

#22. I'll do whatever I can to promote the game.

Eric Staal