Sidney Crosby Quotes

I’m not picky. When I’m hungry, I eat.

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.

I don’t think you’re human if you don’t get nervous.

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.

My favorite player would probably be Steve Yzerman. He played in Detroit. I really liked the way he played and the way he handled himself.

It’s really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.

I try to stay pretty level-headed and just do what I have to do.

I am putting pressure on myself to do my best and perform to my potential.

I’ll be the first one to admit my first couple of years I was pretty hard on the refs.

Breakaway goals are fun.

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.

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.

Growing up in Canada, I didn’t watch football much.

For every whack I’ve given, I’ve gotten four or five.

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.

Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup.

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?’

I watched ‘Mighty Ducks.’ ‘Slapshot’ when I was a little older.

Breakaway goals are fun. When you score a quick one in front of the net, it just happens, but during a breakaway, there’s about one or two seconds where you’re not sure.

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.

It’s not that hard to stay grounded. It’s the way I was brought up.

There’s no doubt I’m emotional.

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.

I didn’t realize the connection between the mullet and success. For sure, you have to have a little bit of hockey hair – a little bit of flow, as they say. A lot of guys have fun with their hockey hair, so I’ll try to keep it a little long.