Sidney Crosby Quotes

I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.

MS Dhoni is an asset in any team he plays for.

Growing up, John Terry was my obvious idol. I based my whole game on him.

Cavani has been a historical figure for PSG. He's scored so many goals. He's a winner; he's a leader. He's very much respected in France as a player but also as a man because of his values.

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.

I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.

Sidney Crosby, our greatest player, I don't want to see Sidney Crosby in the penalty box. I don't want to see Sidney Crosby hurt. I want to see Sidney Crosby play.

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

The greatest hockey player who ever lived: Bobby Orr, and I love him.

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.

I always thought Ray Bourque was a great competitor.

Other kids were watching John Elway. I was watching Tom Landry.

My wife's name, Rebecca Lobo, is on sandwiches and street signs in New England. It adorns the arena rafters at the University of Connecticut, where she first became a basketball star. Her high school in Massachusetts is on Rebecca Lobo Way, a nice trump card to play at reunions.

Patrick Roy was my idol when I was growing up.

Derek Jeter seems like a cool dude.

I don't think there is any 16-year-old who is going to embark on the sort of career that Sachin Tendulkar has had and walk away from the game at 40 with such great achievements. He's the Muhammad Ali and the Michael Jordan of cricket.

LeBron James has always been the biggest one - I just love to watch him. I'm a big fan, and he's a big inspiration of mine.

One of the reasons I wear No. 2 is because of him. Yeah, he was ultimate team guy. He was a winner. And just a good guy for a kid to look up to. And I always pretended to be Jeter.

I'm your favorite player's favorite player.

When LeBron came into the league, I was 9 years old. So I grew up watching him play.

It's fun to look over there and see a guy with as a great stature as John Elway. It's really cool that he went to one of my games.

My favorite player growing up was Steve Nash, so that's been a guy I look up to and a guy I've gotten to talk to a few times, too.

Jay Jay Okocha. On and off the field he was the captain you looked for.

One of my biggest role models was David Beckham because of how he performed on and off the pitch.

Michelle Obama is going to be an amazing First Lady: She's intelligent, capable and motivated. She just embodies everything that an American woman should represent.