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

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

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.

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.

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.'

I always think the opening moments of a party are the hardest, before everyone has had enough to drink.

Synchronicity is the soul's reminder of authorship.

I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric.

The bravest man in the universe Is the one who has forgiven first.

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

It’s a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn’t always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.

I am for America because America is for the common people.