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 le…

- Steve Yzerman

We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. I…

- Steve Yzerman

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

- Steve Yzerman

And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.

- Steve Yzerman

I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.

- Steve Yzerman

As long as I could remember, since I was 5 years old, I watched the Stanley Cup. I stayed up, made a point of watching it presented, watched the cele…

- Steve Yzerman

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 …

- Steve Yzerman

I mean, the best thing for my knee, for anyone's knee, is to never play again and retire. But I'm not going to do that.

- Steve Yzerman

Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.

- Steve Yzerman