“Without training, I'm nothing. If I'm not training, I'm done. Any athl...” — Alexander Ovechkin Quote

“Without training, I'm nothing. If I'm not training, I'm done. Any athlete, they have to train and they have to practice to win games. For sure. One hundred percent. You have to be training.”

“In Moscow, if you have money, you're king. If you don't - sorry, man, get lost. I mean, it's like this everywhere. But in Moscow, it's much more hard-core.”

“Anyone who plays in the NHL dreams to win the Stanley Cup and I dreamed as well to be one of them and raise the cup in Washington and bring it home to Moscow and celebrate with my friends and my parents.”

“My parents, they don't say to me you have to play hockey. They just see me and how I love what's going on on the ice, how I love this atmosphere.”

“I think I will only marry a Russian, well, I mean, a girl from Russia.”

“A thousand games for one organization, it's pretty cool, and I'm going to be the first guy to do it in Washington.”

“Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.”

“I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was young - 'Harriet the Spy', 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.”

“You know, you know, obviously, if my daughter's happy, you know, then I don't have any problem.”

“I don't think there's any point going for second or third.”

“I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one or two cans of Red Bull, there'll be cold McDonald's and jam sandwiches with several cakes.”

“Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.”