Top 30 Quotes by Steve Yzerman

I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it.

I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.

I don't know that I'd agree I was our best player.

I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.

It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.

I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.

I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.

It's true that in Canada, we pride ourselves on the game, and we like to think we're the dominant hockey nation in the world.

I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.