Connor McDavid Quotes

I don't just want to make the playoffs or get to the first or second round. When I compete or make it to the playoffs, I expect to win every time.

You don't have to like me as a person - I understand that I can get on people's nerves with the antics I do in the ring. This is not a popularity contest. I'm trying to do whatever I can to win the fight.

I'm a big believer that if you can have success in the playoffs, when it means the most and when the game is at its highest pace, it always carries into the next year and it gives a player confidence.

I didn't understand a winning atmosphere until I got to Dallas.

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

When you win something, if you don't have that mentality that comes from a tradition of always winning, the built-in demands of a big club, there's always a small dip.

You always take rest over rust in the playoffs.

A team like Brooklyn has seen everything, they've experienced everything, they've had every atmosphere you can have in the playoffs and some of them have won championships. That's the advantage you have as an experienced team and the disadvantage you have as a young team.

I think that every player in every team must have an ambitious mind.

As for myself, in sport you have to question yourself every week and be ready in your head, and you have to be at 100% of determination if you want to keep going and win games; you cannot afford to be at 80% or 90%.

When I was playing for Chelsea and Arsenal, we had a young team but also experienced players. You still have space for the youngsters to play, they just have to be strong mentally to compete every week.

When you're going out with the attitude that you want to win, you can't get caught up in the style of play.

Championship caliber teams don't lose two in a row and they damn sure don't lose three in a row.

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.

When I left college ball, I think I was prepared to coach a team, but I don't think I was prepared to help the team win.

If you play a final and win it, you get that feeling to win trophies, and you want to win more and more and more.

Back in 2014, I felt like I was ready to win a world title. I felt like I was prepared and I was as good as anyone else, but I knew I didn't have the equipment.

I think scoring first is huge in the postseason.

Every time I have the ball in my hands, which is every play, I feel I'm the best player on the team. That's just my mentality. I'm not saying that in a cocky way, but everybody should have that mentality when they step on that field.

There's nothing that can teach you about the playoffs besides going through it.

I have to win, even if I'm just playing ping pong.

People used to talk to me about that and say, 'Rom doesn't play with passion.' I do, but I don't show it too much because in my mind, I'm a guy that thinks a lot about how to win the game. Sometimes I let the emotions just come now, and it helps me.

Ultimately if you can win playing a certain way, then why not do it?

Moral victories are really more for coaches than players.

I think, of course, when you are coming somewhere, when you know you are playing good tennis, it always helps you.