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.

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.

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.'

Given a choice between goose egg and heartache, I would choose heartache.

Raise your love so high that anger cannot reach it.

A positive life can never come from a mind that dwells on repeated negative interpretations of its experiences.

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.- MATTHEW 7:15

For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

I love you. I'm not sure if it's the way you want me to. I think it might be. But I know that I love you. I absolutely love you.

You can't do anything about yesterday tomorrow

It's the closest to death I have ever been. The chemotherapy takes you as far down into hell as you've ever, ever been.

Enjoy life, study hard, play hard, be kind to other people, set high standards, and don't be afraid to say "No."