"If I have a chance to hit somebody, it does not matter who it is."
"Everybody has to have his own style, his own game. Everybody has to be himself. I'm listening to nobody. I have my own mind, my own heart."
"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."
"It means a lot to represent your country."
"People have own mind, own views."
"If somebody ask me to do something for my country, I will. If there's a world championship, I go."
"My view is my view. Your view is your view."
"Mother Nature give me a hell of a body. My parents or whatever. Thanks, Mom and Dad. Mother of nature... From Russia with love."
"I want to be a winner. But you can see Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Wayne Gretzky - that kind of people - where you can see and say yeah, this is players who win everything. I want to be in this page, too."
"The road is the best spot to drive - just anywhere."
"When someone asks to sign on the money I always refuse. Bad omen."
"I normally try to drive carefully."
"I just want to do my best for my country."
"Russian machine never breaks."
"I have an excellent body, not an extra gram of fat. A washboard stomach."
"Some people don't like telling about personal life. I don't like it, either, but you want to tell the fans where I'm growing up, how I did it, who supports me - see my house, my family. It's nice."
"They call me Caveman because I don't care what others think of me."
"I like running all the time. When I run, I feel much better."
"I do a lot of squats, I do a lot of bench pressing. But legs are very important for me. It's more important than arms and shoulders."
"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."
"Just work out. Don't be lazy. If you take a day off, you're going to be fat and you're going to look terrible."
"I'm not a real central-Moscow kid. I'm not used to luxury stuff."
"If you compare Russia and America, they are two different worlds. People, cars, clothes. Girls' figures. Especially girls' figures. Why do you think that is, that when an American goes to Russia for a week, he stays for two extra weeks? Girls! And when a Russian goes to America for a week, he leaves in five days. I'm serious!"
"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."
"Moscow is a big city. It's all nerves - something's always happening somewhere. D.C. is a quiet, calm family town."
