Steve Yzerman Quotes

I always root for the defense.

I think there's a lot of different ways to score points and win football games and be efficient offensively, just like there is on defense and special teams. That's what makes this great game so special.

If we play defense the way we're supposed to and we play defense the way we do here in practice, we should have no problems against most of the teams in the league, and other teams, it'll be a great fight.

If you are going to be successful, there is no point in having three or four top individual players, because those players will win you games, but they will never win you titles.

You have to win on the ball.

If you are not playing for the Stanley Cup at the end of the year, what's the point? If you don't win, you may as well not make the playoffs, because you are loser just like everyone else.

I think winning games is my biggest asset, knowing how to win.

Playoffs, you know, defense is elevated even more.

The most important thing for us is winning the Stanley Cup and I want to win.

That's what they hired me to do in Washington, change a little bit of the culture, try to win a Stanley Cup.

You need to be able to defend. It's massively important, and at Arsenal, we've sometimes been guilty of forgetting that.

If you're dominant on one side of the ball, you set yourself up for getting beat if you're not on both sides of the ball.

I'm up here to help the team win every at-bat, offense, defense, baserunning.

The interesting thing about football is that football is the only sport where you quit playing when you get a lead.

I would like to score goals in every game.

All the coaches preach about defense. Every day they talk about defense, they talk about how important it is to get stops in order to win basketball games.

Whenever you get Brianna Decker on the ice, and Emily Field and Amanda Pelkey, people are just going to go fast and push the pace.

What's mostly left after a match? The scenes in front of the goal where the attackers are the highlights of the play. But doing the spectacular is not particularly important to me. I just want to play for my team.

I'm just here to play basketball and have fun and try to win another championship.

When you get into the playoffs, there become a lot of different storylines. But it's all about putting together a team that competes for a title.

Like I always say, it's a five-on-five game.

Football is a sport that you play with a team and I think if you want to win the Ballon d'Or, you have to win the Champions League.

I don't worry about individual matchups.

I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.

That's what I am trying to be, just trying to affect the game any way possible, rebounding, getting a block, or trying to get a stop even when your shot isn't falling, because, at the end of the day, all that matters is whether you win or lose.