Alexander Ovechkin Quotes

I think the Americans are ready to play, they want to beat us. I think that players like Chris Chelios and his leadership over there goes a long way.

It's a Stanley Cup thing. The boys mangle one another for a series, performing all kinds of nasty tricks, then they make nice, shaking soggy hands as the teams shuffle in opposite directions.

The whole Miami Heat team is my least my favorite athlete. Why? Because they keep beating my Pacers.

Stanley Cup hockey comes around every year, when games start to count in multiples of best-of-seven series, and the players seem to put more attention into every pass, every check, every annoying little trick.

Kevin Durant's kind of been my favorite player my whole life, so it's going to be fun going against him in the Garden.

It would be a pleasure to play against England. They are one of the top teams.

I used to watch LeBron on TV growing up, and now I'm playing my first game against him.

Everybody wants to beat their former team, and I'm no different.

There is a battle between me and Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei. We always do our best.

Those are the ones you look forward to: going against a great, talented player, someone who's going to be in this league for a long time, who you're going to be seeing for a long time. Get a chance to go out, compete, and just have fun. Those are the fun match-ups.

There are guys that you look at and you want to really bowl at them or bat against them, certain guys who really get your juices flowing.

I've been in rivalries. Utah-BYU. Bowling Green-Toledo. Florida, we had three: Florida State, Tennessee and Georgia. You make them personal, but they're not. I didn't grow up disliking Georgia.

As a competitive athlete, you always want to come out on top and give your best work. So whether it's my sister or any other opponent, I'm competitive.

I was a football player and competitor in life.

I don't want anyone to get injured. It's a competition: you want to play against the best teams and the best players.

People would really hate playing against me if I could touch them.

In the Big Ten, we disliked the SEC because of the success they had.

I wasn't a big Sam Darnold fan after they beat us in the Rose Bowl game my sophomore year, but that's just a competitive thing. We joke around about that all the time. I got to know him a little more.

I like the big matches against the greatest players.

Well, it used to be Kobe Bryant... the second best all time.... now, I have a new favorite player to play against... my former teammate, LeBron James.

The kids competed for a full 32 minutes. We want the kids to compete on every possession.

I've played with Mardy Fish a lot. Played with him, I think, two years ago in one of the weekend rounds.

I am still better than lots of players.

Best football player I played against? I think Messi. He killed us.

This ain't the Girl Scouts. This ain't the Boy Scouts. This is the NBA.