Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Brad Marchand

When your team does well and you're winning then everyone has success from that. You see that with all Cup-winning teams. Those guys end up having long careers.

I have to play a bit of a physical game and try to work harder than everyone else.

I want to stand up for what I believe in, and I don't think it's right when people say things or bash people because of their sexual orientation.

If we want to be a good team, you have to learn how to practice every day.

I can't be getting off my game. I need to be getting teams off their games.

I play low to the ice and that's a way I've protected myself in the past - I just felt that it was better to be safe than sorry.

We always play better when we play with emotion.

I have friends who are in gay relationships and I don't think it's right for people to be against that.

Growing up, I had military members in my family.

Growing up, your whole goal and dream is to make the NHL. Once you get there, you kind of have to expand your goals on and off the ice. It took a little bit of time for me to do that, but again, with age and maturity you understand what you want more and how to achieve those things.

I've always been a guy that's worked hard off the ice and prepared the right way and I feel like I can play those minutes, can play power play and PK and 5-on-5 and I've worked hard to make sure my stamina's up so I can play those minutes.

I guess if the president of the United States gives you a nickname, you have to stick with it.

When you win the Cup, you need everything to line up. You need to get lucky, you need guys to stay healthy, you need guys to play well at the right time.

I just remember I'd snap over little things when I was younger a lot. It was more just trying to control yourself in certain situations and learn how to harness that anger.

Both my grandfathers were in the Navy, and I have cousins and uncles in the military, so it's something that I've always respected.

I was always taught growing up that great players show up to big games.

You want to stay even-keel. When you get too high, when you get too low, that's when things tend to go wrong.

I don't play in spite of people, I play for the people who pushed me along, the people who have helped me succeed.

The leadership group I had to follow is very easy to walk in their footsteps and try to be like them. You try and set that same example for the guys coming up.

We're all friends, me and the refs.

When we do, when we're playing physical and we're playing tight, playing with emotion, we play well.

Well, I'm a small guy.

My dad was a big grinder, a tough guy. I inherited that from him.

At the end of the day, we all play for one reason and that's to win.

It isn't something I'm out there looking to do - take minor penalties.

I'm not always a rat. Sometimes it just comes out.

When you're out there and you see how excited the kids get to talk to you and how much they enjoy watching us play, it's really touching and I think we all appreciate what we do so much more when you see the excitement that you bring; especially with the kids.

Winning and losing, it sticks with you forever.

You don't forget everything that happens when you win, and you definitely don't forget what happens when you lose.

There's always room for every player to improve.

I remember all the way back to atom, when I would be doing things I shouldn't be doing. It is just how I was. It just gets me involved in the game.

There are great players who go unnoticed because they're not on the best teams.

There's going to be ups, there's going to be downs and you're going to have to roll with the punches.

Being an agitator gives me an opportunity to draw penalties against the other team. That's one part that brings emotion to my game.

I'm a lot smaller than most guys, so I have to make up with grittiness and show I can work the hardest, show I'm strong on my skates and show I can push some people around.

I've always been a guy that worked hard.

When the team does well we all do well.

My dad's always been a coach and one of my coaches.

I don't bite the hand that feeds me. I'm a little smarter than that.

It's always a lot easier when you have people around you supporting you.

The mind is such a powerful thing, and when you learn how to control that it really turns a lot of things around.

In playoffs, it's so emotional and the tension's really high and guys are laying everything on the line. And when you do that, things get chippy and guys are playing aggressively, and I think it just comes out in the playoffs a little more. When you know what's on the line and what you're expected to do, it just comes out.

There's so much to benefit from being able to control your mind in certain situations and it just keeps you even-keel all the time when things are going well and when they're not. That's one thing that I've always had a bit of a tough time doing. When I get up, I get excited. When I'm down, I get pretty frustrated.

I have been a Bruin since the start of my pro career and there is no place I would rather play.

If you are not playing for the Stanley Cup at the end of the year, what's the point? If you don't win, you may as well not make the playoffs, because you are loser just like everyone else.

Deep down I think I'm a lovable guy.

It'd be better if I was 6-2, 220, but I'll work with what I've got.

I can never say enough good things about Boston.

If you take guys who have been off who have had very limited opportunity to work out and train and haven't skated in months, you can't just throw them back into games. Everyone's going to get hurt.

Boston has become my second home. I absolutely love it there.

If I played the game any other way, you wouldn't know my name. You wouldn't care enough to hate me because I wouldn't be in the NHL.

Halifax is a big hockey city. Everyone loves the game here and really enjoys anyone who has had success.

You need young guys to come in and play like older guys, really help the team and produce.

It's tough being a small player. You don't want to be known as a guy who goes into the corner and loses 50 percent of the battles.

I had to play a certain way to get in the league. That's kind of where I came from. I wouldn't change a thing going back, I wouldn't change anything that happened.

Practice makes perfect and if you practice battling and competing and working hard, then that will transfer over in a game. If you practice just kind of floating around out there in practice, you know that's going to transfer over, too. So I think the harder you work and the more you compete, then that's how you're going to play in a game.

Maybe playing around and having fun is considered being a rat... I guess I'm a rat.

There are a lot of things people want to look at, pick apart my game, but if you could put any of them in my position, to do anything to make their dream come true... I'm pretty damn sure they'd do it, too.

I've won midget championships, a junior-league title, two World Junior Championships and some other minor-hockey championships, but I don't think teams win because I'm on them.

The last thing I want to do is anything to hurt the team.