Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Jacques Plante

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Joseph Jacques Omer Plante was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. During a career lasting from 1947 to 1975, he was considered to be one of the most important innovators in hockey. He played for the Montreal Canadiens from 1953 to 1963; during his tenure, the team won the Stanley Cup six times, including five consecutive wins. In 2017 Plante was named one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players" in history.

Canadian - Athlete | January 17, 1929 - February 27, 1986

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Whenever I won an award in the NHL, I thought of my father and the pride he would get in reading about it and having people mention it to him.

Jacques Plante

Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked?

Jacques Plante

I am getting old, but it works in this job. I'm so slow now that I can't get out of the way of the puck.

Jacques Plante

Someday, I'm going to learn to knit with my feet.

Jacques Plante

You had no mask, and the coach kept telling you, 'Use your head.' And I did.

Jacques Plante

Our four defensemen all had flaws: one couldn't skate backwards, one couldn't turn to his left, one couldn't turn to his right, and the fourth couldn't pass the puck accurately to our blue line. Somebody had to clear the loose pucks, so I started doing it myself.

Jacques Plante

If I don't wear the mask, I'm not playing.

Jacques Plante

How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

Jacques Plante

If I've got to use my head, I might as well wear the mask.

Jacques Plante

Dad was a machinist who had to work hard - harder than any man I have ever known.

Jacques Plante

All of us kids in the neighbourhood had to go shoeless for the same reason - all except the landlord's son, because his father had more income.

Jacques Plante

The shoot-and-chase approach had become big in hockey. Teams would come up to the blue line and shoot the puck around our boards deep in our zone, then swarm in after it forechecking, trying to regain possession.

Jacques Plante

Playing goal is like being shot at.

Jacques Plante

Hockey is an art. It requires speed, precision, and strength like other sports, but it also demands an extraordinary intelligence to develop a logical sequence of movements, a technique which is smooth, graceful and in rhythm with the rest of the game.

Jacques Plante

Only a goalie can appreciate what a goalie goes through.

Jacques Plante

How would you like it if, at your job, every time you made the slightest mistake a little red light went on over your head and 18,000 people stood up and screamed at you?

Jacques Plante

If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, does that make you brave? No, I think that makes you stupid. I will never play without the mask again.

Jacques Plante

How would you like a job where, if you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

Jacques Plante

Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Jacques Plante

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