Auston Matthews

In Canada, hockey is the dominant thing.

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I elevate guys around me.

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I think I'm extremely competitive.

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I want to be an impact player.

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I try to be the best I can be.

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I hold myself to a high standard.

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I just focus on getting better.

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I don't mind wearing a suit.

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Just because you're good at some things doesn't mean you can't be better at them.

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I think everyone wants to get drafted as high as they can. That's the way I look at it as well.

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Toronto is a sports city, and hockey is the top of that list.

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The key when it comes to media is just always being responsible.

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I'm not going to give some person who's behind their phone the power to make me feel a certain way.

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Not many people get to be on the cover of the video game. I consider myself pretty lucky.

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I have to make sure I make an impact and in every way possible.

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My dad is a competitive guy. That's a part of me. It's just a certain drive, I guess.

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I think both my mom and dad, just preached, be yourself every day. Be humble, but obviously have fun with what you…

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I've always played video games here and there. I've never been a super-gamer kind of guy, but I do enjoy playing them…

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I take a lot of pride in preparing for the season and representing the Toronto Maple Leafs as well as I can.

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My mom's side is from Hermosillo. It's about six hours south of Phoenix. I've been there, went there a lot growing up.…

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I like kind of picking out specific players and watching what they do, whether it's in pregame skate or warmups or in…

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That's all you can ask for: that your general manager and all your teammates truly believe in one another.

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I think it's a tremendous honor to wear the blue and white and represent the city of Toronto and wear the Maple…

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I used to love going to the hat store, like Lids, when I was younger and getting a new hat for the…

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I think a lot of the traditional things are what makes hockey so great and all of us really appreciate and respect…

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You can't wish that you were a normal kid if your dream is to play in the NHL. You've got to do…

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The outreach of people in Arizona, young kids, families, just reaching out to me and my parents at the rink or wherever,…

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You know, it can get to a place where when a person hears about hockey, it's not just like, 'Oh, that's the…

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I've got the golf hats, the tennis hats, the bucket hats. I got a hat for whatever occasion is needed. So I…

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I don't read magazines too often.

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Having a good regular season isn't really cutting it anymore.

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I want to make the team better and get better each day.

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My mom makes a great tortilla soup. I've never met anybody that didn't like it.

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Louis Vuitton, I like their luggage and wallets. I tend to lean toward that as far as that goes.

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I've always been interested in clothes, fashion, hats, you name it.

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You don't want to lose, I hate losing, everybody doesn't want to lose.

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I want to score, I want to produce and do those things.

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I would always go hunting with my dad, my grandpa and some of their friends. We'd hunt quail.

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The whole process, getting drafted as a top pick, it's stressful.

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I played pretty much sports games. 'NHL,' 'Madden,' stuff like that.

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