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.

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.'

What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

It's only after you upgrade to a better technology that you realize how obsolete the previous one has now become.

If each psychology student could help one patient rather than formatting their thesis every semester, then millions of sufferers would benefit each year.

People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.

Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

I'm quite good at not writing.

Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.

Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.