"I don’t know if I’ll be picked first overall, that’s not up to me. All I know is I’ll be sitting with my family and I’ll have a big smile on my face."
-- Alexandre Daigle - June 1993
"Nobody remembers who was chosen No. 2"
-- Alexandre Daigle (Alexandre made it clear before the draft that he wanted to be #1 more than he cared about what team he went to)
"He's a little cocky but most of the BEST are"
-- Brian Burke (Hartfords General manager)
"A guy like Daigle comes along only once in a great while"
-- John Ferguson (Ottawa's director of player development)
"Hockey is an entertainment business and Daigle is a complete entertainment package"
-- Chuck Grillo (San Jose's director of player development)
"Alexandre has five-speed skates.... He's got everyone on the edge of their seats. You never know what Alexandre will do"
--Michel Cormier (Victoriaville Tigres general manager"
"Philly is a very good team, and I got traded for three players, so I don't think I was that bad of a player,''
-- Alexandre Daigle (after being traded to the Flyers)
"I was playing a lot and playing better. The confidence was back. But I still have confidence now. Even though I'm hurt, I'm going to come back."
-- Alexandre Daigle- Feb. 6, 1996 (talking in regards to his broken left arm, which cut his season short)
"I think their explanation was what they said in the papers, which I don't buy, that I lack passion and it seems like I don't want to play... If I didn't want to play, I wouldn't have trained all summer and I wouldn't have shown up (to camp)."
-- Alexandre Daigle (in response to Tampa Bay dumping him after training camp)
"A lot of teams wanted nothing to do with me for good or bad reasons...It was tough, but that's the way it was. Obviously, that was my big break."
-- Alexandre Daigle (in regards of his trade to the New York Rangers)
"It (leaving Tampa) might be a blessing in the long run, I'd rather be here than anywhere."
--Alexandre Daigle (on leaving Tampa Bay for New York)
"I've been playing on a consistent basis, on the same line for 10 games, and that's surprising. Usually, when you're called up, you're shuffled around a little bit."
-- Alexandre Daigle (on his return to the Rangers after being sent back to the minors)
"He’s acting like a spoiled little girl right now. If I don’t get my way...’How stupid is that’."
--Philly GM Bobby Clarke on Alexandre Daigle’s refusal to go to Edmonton
**Its good to know that Alex and I have something in common! iit must be an Aquarius thing**
