Eric Lindros Quotations

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents.

You have to dream dreams to live dreams.

I've been excited since I received a phone call from Paul Holmgren inviting me to represent the Flyers and Flyer fans at the alumni game of the Winter Classic weekend.

People on the streets are ready for hockey.

Right now I'm happy to be on the ice anywhere, anytime.

I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past.

There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute.

My focus is to get the surgery under my belt so I can prepare myself to play next year. Retiring has never entered my mind.

I can honestly say there isn't a guy in the dressing room who doesn't respect Pat.

I thought we hung in there and got great goaltending again, ... It wasn't our most spectacular (win), but generally a good effort.

I thought we hung in there and got great goaltending again,

I think so. We'll see how it responds (to Monday's practice), but right now I think so.

I think everyone on our team pretty much was (named), right?

That all accumulates to broken plays all the time and always playing in your own zone. Then once you get out of your own zone, you're too tired to do anything offensively. Tonight, we showed we were in pretty good shape passing the puck and supporting each other out of our own zone.

We know that we can do it. In the last couple of games, we might have lost our confidence in moving the puck, making our shots and our passing wasn't as precise as it might have been in the past,

We were joking in the dressing room that we only put out two lines (in Atlanta) so the rest of us should have a lot of energy,

What's best is having two points, ... We have played some good hockey clubs in the first four games. So we're just happy about the win. We got some great goaltending and we're fortunate.

There's no communication I don't think we'll be playing this season at all. The bottom line for both sides is nobody should be worrying about public perception right now or who is right and who is wrong in all of this. They should be putting their energy into trying to get a deal done. It's not going to matter who is winning the battle for public opinion if we don't get a deal done. I just don't think there's much reason for optimism with nothing happening right now. We offered them the 24 percent (salary) rollback and I thought that was a very good offer. They didn't want it. We know that hockey is going to be back. But I can't tell you when and in what form.

I've been really working on stick-handling with my head up,

I've been through this a few times. So I'm not going to fire one out. When it's ready, it'll be ready.

Things are good right now and I know they are going to get better. I don't have an exact timetable right now but things seem to be moving in the right direction.

It wasn't our most spectacular (win). But generally, a good effort.

Its a one-year deal but its also a chance to be here for many years to come,

It's a little dusty, ... It's about time. This is great. I'm really excited about it. It's a dream come true.

It's definitely something we have to work on. Sometimes our entries into the zone are pretty good but the puck movement isn't. At other times we just have problems getting it in there.

It's interesting how it worked out, ... But this is a good situation for him. It's what he wanted.

I love it, ... It makes for exciting hockey.

I know it's smart to wear a visor. I just don't like it. I can't see out of them.

I think our guys are getting more accustomed to it (the new rules) and we'll see what we can do with it.

He's just a great human being and a wonderful talent on the ice. It was just a thrill to be in the same dressing room as him.

Allison has really done a great job in the last few games of working the puck down deep,

I might have practiced stick-handling with my head up a bit more.

When you ask for the house, car, cat, dog and all the fish when you're dealing with a player who's got questions about his health, no GM in his right mind is going to say yes and offer to clean the aquarium, too.