ALEXANDER OVECHKIN

The most important thing is if you keep your body in good shape, you know what you have to do for your body.

Anyone who plays in the NHL dreams to win the Stanley Cup and I dreamed as well to be one of them and raise the cup in Washington and bring it home to Moscow and celebrate with my friends and my parents.

It is a huge honor for me to be an ambassador for the entire Washington Capitals organization and the National Hockey League for this special trip to China.

My hope, it's not only my hope, but all of the NHL hopes to raise hockey in China because it's a good country to raise hockey.

My parents did a great job.

I can't stand bad breath.

I just try to do my best to shoot the puck and we'll see what's going to happen with it.

I think it is very important to spend time to help make people all over the world see how great a game hockey is.

My father is my idol. He supports me all the time. He has given me the way to life.

I normally try to drive carefully.

The first thought is always about making the playoffs. That's the tough part. And once you get there, only then you can allow yourself to start thinking how you are going to play in the playoffs against other teams. And a lot is left to chance then. There's an element of luck as well: sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you do not.

When your dream comes true you have to have great fun.

Ever since I was a kid and all the time I have played in the NHL, NHL players have played in the Olympic Games.

A thousand games for one organization, it's pretty cool, and I'm going to be the first guy to do it in Washington.

To me, I feel like your accomplishments have been recognized when you make the cover of a videogame.

It's nice when people want to see you.

I'm proud to have a small part in the growth of hockey in D.C., but our organization does so much every day to get young kids to play hockey and I'm always appreciative of that.

It is not a secret that I want to get better every day with every game.

If I have a chance to hit somebody, it does not matter who it is.

In Moscow, if you have money, you're king. If you don't - sorry, man, get lost. I mean, it's like this everywhere. But in Moscow, it's much more hard-core.

If somebody ask me to do something for my country, I will. If there's a world championship, I go.

To be honest, I don't remember what happened in '95, '96 and '97. It was hard years. My memory is deleting.

I like running all the time. When I run, I feel much better.

We play a game for a living.

The season is long. When I'm off, I try to distract myself from hockey.