Jason Spezza Quotes

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

I was 13 or 14 and I met Donald Trump at a bar mitzvah of a good friend of ours, who's friends with him. He had his girlfriend at the time with him, that Melania with him. He said, 'Hey guys, if you work hard and be successful, you'll get one of these.' I'll never forget that. And now he's married to her.

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.

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.'