You can't always be the top player, but you can always contribute. I just want to win...that's what matters.

I didn't want to be cut, but it made me a better person and a better player.

My goal is to be at the top of my game every night.

I'd really like to have my own style of game and be known as Jason Spezza, not a Mario Lemieux or Wayne Gretzky 'clone.'

You guys will write what you want to write, people will say what they want to say. I can't control any of that. All I can control is how I play. I'm trying to be the best player I can be.

If I ever have a chance to become a top-notch guy on a top team, I think that's more valuable than anything else.

The hype that follows me doesn't bug me. I expect more out of myself than anyone else does, that's for sure.