Top 110 Quotes & Sayings by Martin Brodeur - Page 2

You have to go through some adversity to be able to be successful.

The thing about hockey for me is I'm really competitive and I like to have fun.

I've always played hockey to win, not to get shutouts.

I love being part of a team.

On the personal level, it's hard for a goalie. You don't get awards for save percentage or anything like that. Your work is really put into how many wins you can get, how many times you can get your team in the playoffs and all that. So I took a lot of pride in winning.

Every team writes its own story.

As a player you get to meet Hall of Fame members and now to have my name in the same sentence makes me speechless.

My dad would talk to players like Claude Lemieux and Stephane Richer and tell them one day his son was going to play in the NHL. How many dads say the same thing? But, gee, he was right.

Every year you go out and there are teams you have success against and there are teams that are a little tougher.

I'm a guy that wanted to have fun. When I look back at all the wins I had, I must have had a lot of fun playing the game and made people happy.

In life, nothing is always fun.

When you have a little success you let up a little bit.

I think I was just really comfortable in my goalie equipment, just being in the net and being by myself for 60 minutes and talking to myself sometimes.

Hockey is just a game.

My durability is just something I took a lot of pride in, that I was able to play 70 games over and over and over and they add up to 1,200-and-something games, plus the playoff games, plus whatever.

My life was going to school, having a snack and going outside to play hockey until dinner time. I would then do my homework and go back out to play, but only if the Canadiens weren't playing that night. That's what I did every day, whether it was street hockey or pond hockey.

I was fortunate to play on great teams that allowed me to play with my own personality, which is so important to a goaltender.

I loved the city of St. Louis.

I couldn't care less lots of times about getting scored on late in a game because it would affect my goals-against average or my save percentage.

Before I played in the NHL I had two surgeries. Definitely I was like, 'Wow, this is not good. I haven't played a game yet and I have two surgeries.' I didn't get another one ever again. I was fortunate.

Every time I have a chance I'm going to make a pass to one of my players in practice. Every time I have a chance I'm going to clear the puck just to see how far I'm going to be able to shoot it.

You go through playoff series and people forget about them. Nobody forgets about a Rangers-Devils series. It's demanding.

The Montreal Canadiens have been a big part of my family.

I practiced and played a certain way that kept my body limber. That's probably why I never got hurt.

For me, my hockey career is all about the Devils.

I'm just glad that people think I'm good. The other way around would not be fun!

Coaching was something I've never had much interest in. I've always been a big-picture guy, like a manager has to be.

Terry Sawchuk is an icon in our profession.

I think if you want to be a successful president or a manager of a team, you need to understand what the business is all about because you have to deal with the business side of the game to be able to do what you need to do.

It's a lot of hard work to be a manager or a coach. But as players, we had to have a good work ethic to be good, and we can use that trait in management or as a coach.

I was fortunate to be part of great teams that had success, and I was part of great teams that didn't have success.

There's a lot of guys that are able to perform for a short period of time. It could be a week, it could be a month, it could be two months, it could be one season. It's doing it over and over. And being consistent was something that watching Patrick Roy all these years, that's what he was. He never had down years.

You're paid to perform. There is an outcome to a game and it doesn't matter how many goals you score. If you don't win, you don't have a good time.

When I got drafted I just wanted to play one game in the NHL. I didn't really care anything about winning.

It takes a special individual to be a coach to pay attention to all that bad stuff and keep people accountable.

Photography was a big part of our family.

There are good people here in the Midwest. That's for sure.

If I'm not going to play a lot I'd like to have a chance to win every time I jump between the pipes.

I'd never be a jerk with my teammates because I know I need them to be successful.

I never won a Vezina Trophy until I won the Olympic gold medal.

No one in Montreal learns how to skate. You're just born that way.

Our job is to get on the road and win one game now. It's a great position to be in. We were lucky to get home ice [advantage] this year. For some reason, we pulled it off at the end and we took advantage early in the series. Now, it's up to us to do our thing on the road.

Goalies often react quickly to shots with no regard for what might happen to their body because we are trained to stop pucks first and ask questions later.

I think we've been through a lot this season and it will be nice to move on. It's one step at a time though. The focus of our hockey club was great. We really stuck to our game plan and didn't get too high or too low and we definitely didn't get over excited.

Do everything you need to do to keep the passion alive and never forget that it is a privilege to do what you love.

The doctor looked at it after the game and he thought it didn't look too bad, but we'll see what happens. My skate got caught and I twisted it. I heard it twist and I couldn't get up. All my body weight fell on it. I had to be really hurt to leave the game - we were still in the game at that point.

It was tough to get up for teams from the West. This will put a lot of interest back in the game.

Losing a game is not a big deal, except you've got to make sure that you move on and get the next one.

You can't be happy, taking away something I've worked on all my life to do and help my teammates and help my defense, ... It's just part of me, playing the puck. So, definitely, you can't be happy.

It's a skill that I worked all my life, and it's been taken away. That's kind of tough to take.