A biography for Auston Matthewshasn’t been written yet.
“I have nothing against college hockey or junior hockey. They produce tons and tons of really great players.”
“There are hard ups and down throughout the season.”
“I'm not a big cook.”
“The outreach of people in Arizona, young kids, families, just reaching out to me and my parents at the rink or wherever, it's always been really positive. You want to be the kind of person that they can look up to.”
“I'm not going to give some person who's behind their phone the power to make me feel a certain way.”
“I played pretty much sports games. 'NHL,' 'Madden,' stuff like that.”
“I think everyone wants to get drafted as high as they can. That's the way I look at it as well.”
“I think it's a tremendous honor to wear the blue and white and represent the city of Toronto and wear the Maple Leaf every night.”
“You don't want to lose, I hate losing, everybody doesn't want to lose.”
“I used to love going to the hat store, like Lids, when I was younger and getting a new hat for the school year or for the summer. I was always super pumped about that.”
“In Canada, hockey is the dominant thing.”
“I think I'm extremely competitive.”
“I've always been interested in clothes, fashion, hats, you name it.”
“You want to be explosive, to get the advantage of the first step.”
“Louis Vuitton, I like their luggage and wallets. I tend to lean toward that as far as that goes.”
“When I'm playing well, I do think I can be a dominant centre.”
“There are a lot of really good hockey players that have had great starts to their careers and have experience in the NHL under 23 years old.”
“The summer I was drafted, I think, I just spent all summer working on my shot and different release points.”
“I think it'd be amazing to see a pre-season game in Mexico.”
“I want to make the team better and get better each day.”