“He's got Mike Bossy's hands, Jari Kurri's on-ice awareness, and Mark Messier's physicality.”

“All this ice got me feelin like a polar bear.”

“Every time I look into his eyes I just want to take the ice cream or whatever I've got in my hand and rub it into his face. That's how much I like him.”

“You are ice and fire
The touch of you burns my hands like snow”

“It's a crushing right hand and that must finish it! It must finish it! Tyson cannot get up from that, surely. He will be counted out. Lennox Lewis seals his place in history forever and closes the book on Mike Tyson!”

“He's a man with a plan,
Got a counterfeit dollar in his hand,
He's misstra know-it-all.”

“The whole crew sat on the deck, without a storm or a monster attack to worry about for the first time in days, and ate ice cream. Well, except for Frank, who was lactose intolerant. He got an apple.”

“Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralyzing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a man struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.”

“He lives.
I breathe.
I want. Him. Always.
Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever.
-Mac”

“I’ve always been very aware of the inner me that has nothing to do with the physical me.”