Steve Yzerman Quotes

I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.

I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.

I don't know that I'd agree I was our best player.

Darren McCarty is a big video game guy, and he brings his systems with him on the road.

We penalize and suspend players for making contact with the head while checking, in an effort to reduce head injuries, yet we still allow fighting. We're stuck in the middle and need to decide what kind of sport do we want to be. Either anything goes and we accept the consequences, or take the next step and eliminate fighting.

I consider the Detroit Red Wings one of the greatest franchises in any sport. For a player to come in and play, it's so special to wear the jersey.

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

It's true that in Canada, we pride ourselves on the game, and we like to think we're the dominant hockey nation in the world.

We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.

The 70's hair with the long on the sides, just doesn't look good coming down the sides of the helmet.

We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games.

As long as I could remember, since I was 5 years old, I watched the Stanley Cup. I stayed up, made a point of watching it presented, watched the celebration in the locker room, and always dreamed that maybe I'd get there.

It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.

I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.

We should've been better, more disciplined. We made untimely mistakes defensively, as a group. This is really humbling for us. After winning the Stanley Cup, we got brought back down to earth, hard. Maybe the humbling is good for us in the long run.

I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.

It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.

I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.

Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.

And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.

I wore No. 19 because of Bryan Trottier. I liked the overall aspect of his game. I liked the way he conducted himself on the ice. He was a quiet guy. He played really hard; just a good all-around, prototypical center man who could do everything.

Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly.