Zitat des Tages von Sidney Crosby:
The more you hesitate in a game, the more your chance of getting hit. Your focus isn't there. When you hesitate, usually you're in trouble.
When I'm practicing, I think I'm pretty focused, and I spend a lot of energy on making sure I get better, but once I'm outside the rink, I think, like anyone else, I like to enjoy everything that everyone else does.
Growing up in Canada, I didn't watch football much.
I am putting pressure on myself to do my best and perform to my potential.
It is so important to me to have my time away from hockey. Obviously, hockey is my passion; I love it. But definitely for me, time away from the rink and time when my mind isn't thinking about hockey is important.
I'll be the first one to admit my first couple of years I was pretty hard on the refs.
I watched 'Mighty Ducks.' 'Slapshot' when I was a little older.
Obviously, I don't want to be in the box for over a hundred minutes during the season, but at the same time I have to try to play with an edge and battle out there.
For me, I've learned that the best thing is to focus on the team you play for and yourself and what you need to do.
Whether you're trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, I've always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether it's as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that.
Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup.
There's no doubt I'm emotional.
I'm most comfortable definitely when I'm on the ice. I love to play. It's something that I just love to do.
Challenging someone is good. You need to do it. Sometimes they don't even realize you're doing it, like when you joke with a goalie, 'What's wrong today? You losing it?'
People are going to have their opinions. Whether it's good or bad, I don't really think about it either way.
I don't think you're human if you don't get nervous.
It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.
For every whack I've given, I've gotten four or five.
I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling.
It's not that hard to stay grounded. It's the way I was brought up.
In my situation there are often things I need to do for the team, so when I get the chance to relax it's all I want to do.
I try to stay pretty level-headed and just do what I have to do.
I think every athlete will tell you no matter what sport you're in, when you train so hard and when you care so much about doing what you do, there's a little bit of nerves that come with that. But nerves that won't prevent you form performing, nerves that, hopefully, allow you to be that much more motivated and inspired to do well.
I want to be the best, so whatever comes with that, I'll have to accept.
I always wanted to be the best and to get the most out of myself.
I'm not picky. When I'm hungry, I eat.
In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the sport is. But in hockey, you have the boards. I just couldn't say which is more physical.