Tom McMillan Quotations | Page 2

A lot of this became grabbing the bucking bronco and going, because you couldn't plan. What you want to do is, you don't want to get in the way of what's already happening.

I know he's had some training with the media, ... but I don't care what kind of training you've had, you either have his kind of poise or you don't.

The first time most people here will see Sidney Crosby on the ice will be at training camp, including us, other than our scouts. Obviously word of the legend got here, word of the accomplishment, word of the prize. There is a Sidney Crosby frenzy, no doubt. The scene when he arrived at the airport for the first time in August was unlike any that had ever greeted any Pittsburgh athlete, from a media standpoint. We've never seen anything like this.

I hope we get to that point. Those are nice challenges to have, but we're not there yet. It's an unprecedented time and we're riding the wave.

We've tuned it down to a mild roar. We've got to let him play hockey a little bit. That's the best marketing of all.

We picked Sidney at 4:30 on July 22 and the phones started ringing immediately at 4:31,

I've never seen anything quite like it, all the fuss over a guy they had never seen play. But the phone hasn't stopped ringing since.

The phones started ringing at 4:31 that day. The reaction was spontaneous combustion,

Certainly, we want to get him over to meet Jason Bay.

We are aware of the responsibility to the league as well. This isn't just a Penguin thing.