If I ever have a chance to become a top-notch guy on a top team, I think that's more valuable than anything else.

You can't always be the top player, but you can always contribute. I just want to win...that's what matters.

My goal is to be at the top of my game every night.

You guys will write what you want to write, people will say what they want to say. I can't control any of that. All I can control is how I play. I'm trying to be the best player I can be.

The hype that follows me doesn't bug me. I expect more out of myself than anyone else does, that's for sure.

I didn't want to be cut, but it made me a better person and a better player.

I'd really like to have my own style of game and be known as Jason Spezza, not a Mario Lemieux or Wayne Gretzky 'clone.'

By December an elastic skin of ice reached out hundreds of miles into the sea, rolling with every wave.

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.

Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

There are secrets everywhere. I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character.

War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.

The eyes are the landing strip to the heart.