Quotes By Sidney Crosby

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 don't have one favourite band. I like everything.

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

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

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

Breakaway goals are fun.

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

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.

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

I want to be the best, so whatever comes with that, I'll have to accept.

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.

I'm most comfortable definitely when I'm on the ice. I love to play. It's something that I just love 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.

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

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.

People are going to have their opinions. Whether it's good or bad, I don't really think about it either way.

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.

There's no doubt I'm emotional.

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

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?'

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

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

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.