Quotes from Connor McDavid

There is a lot of instinct that comes with playing hockey and playing a number of games and playing all the way up; you kind of get a feel for what's gonna happen and make plays off that.

Hockey is a year-round job.

I definitely still work on my skating a lot.

Edmonton has such a great history. It makes coming to the rink special to know those former players wore the jersey and had so much success here.

I never played against my own age, and I was one of the best players. That's when I would get really nervous, maybe not sleep the night before a game.

It's a slim margin of error in this league.

You can't just go out and buy players and make a super team, because it's so hard to do that. The salary cap doesn't allow it. We have a much smaller salary cap than the NBA, and they only have 12 on a roster.

I definitely feel like I'm a smarter player than when I first entered the League.

There's something about playing in junior and being with your buddies all the time and going through that run, it's hard not to fall in love with it.

I'm a guy who wants to make a lasting impression on hockey, and if I'm going to do that, I have a lot more work to do than just one season.

You have to make every day count toward your dream.

I think when I first came into the League, I was blowing the zone all the time, just kind of expecting pucks to get out. You learn very quickly that you can't be doing that.

I'm trying to work on it - not cheating, stopping in the 'D' zone, all that kind of stuff.

Being solid in your own zone, being a good faceoff guy, those are things that are all important as you go deep in the playoffs.

Every year is a new year, and when you look at the turnover year to year, teams that made the playoffs last year aren't a guarantee to make the playoffs this year.

I was definitely not the cocky kid. I was probably on the other end of the spectrum - I was quiet. I remember a time when there was a skills competition, and I think I was five, and I was so nervous to even compete that I chose not to do the skating part.

As a kid I wore my team's tracksuit all the time. Splash pants or track pants. I wore a hat every day. And then when I got to the NHL, guys would make fun of me that I had the worse style in the league.

Every little muscle is so important.

It's always tough when you're off the ice for a while when you've got to come back because you can't replicate the type of cardio that you need to play hockey and you can't really replicate skating at all. You can run as many stairs, or bike as many whatever on your spin bike as you want, but you can't replicate it at all.

I'm not a big nickname guy.

I'm sure personal accolades are nice and you appreciate them very much. But it's about winning Cups and winning Olympics and winning World Cups and that kind of thing.

You always have to be optimistic, you can never lose that.

It's all about team accolades.

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