"When Mats Sundin scores a big goal everyone is happy and when Curtis Joseph makes a big save it's the same thing. For me, it's making a good play on a 2-on-1 or throwing a big hit."
"I did that as a joke. I've done it a couple times in the regular season and in the playoffs. It's just meant to be fun." --After he got down on his knees and "blessed" his hockey stick with a short prayer before a game
"Please boys. No cameras. I look so bad. Please." --To the cameramen wanting an interview after game 6 when he took a puck in the face.
"I told them, he no win. They no win" --About what he said to the senators bench on his way off the ice after taking a puck in the face.
"Sometimes, when we get going back and forth, he tells me I 'need a whole lot of shut-up' " ---DARCY TUCKER about his arguments with Markov. (omg, this is classic..for real lol..up until this day I still tell people they 'need a whole lot of shut-up' all the time :D)
"I can't dance like him, but I listen to his music sometimes" --on Elvis....Danny was given the nickname Elvis by teammates because of his fashion style.
I'm trying to put together some recent ones..but that takes a lot of effort, digging through articles and news clipping and such...and as you know I'm a little lazy these days :) But I'm working on it! here ya go...
"My father taught me how to play this way," Markov said. "He pushed me to play as hard as I can and I've always tried to do that. It's just emotion. I love playing hockey. I love to just go, go, go."
"It's a good city to live in and play hockey," he said of Phoenix. "First of all, it is very beautiful weather and sun everyday, the way I like it. Every morning you can wake up, open your eyes and there's sun. Not like Toronto."
Ouch Danny, Ouch...
"My reaction was I tried to open my eye and I couldn't because of all the blood," Markov explained. "Later on I opened it and felt there was nothing wrong with my eye. Just a broken nose and a couple cuts. It all took maybe 30 minutes. "(The training staff) said, 'If you don't want to go, don't go.' But it was just a cut. Nothing stopped me."
Nothing wrong with your eye?? Later on?? 30 minutes! 30 minutes ago you couldn't open your eye and now there's nothing wrong? Ok when I read things like this about him (which is often), my first reaction is always like "what is he doing?? is he out of his mind?!" But then I remember, no...it's just who he is. Always has been.