Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Randy Carlyle

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian coach Randy Carlyle.

Last updated on April 21, 2025.

Randolph Robert Carlyle is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. He is the former head coach of the National Hockey League (NHL)'s Toronto Maple Leafs and the Anaheim Ducks. He won the Stanley Cup in 2007 with the Ducks during his first stint with the team. As a player, Carlyle dressed for over 1,000 games between the Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins and Winnipeg Jets, winning the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the NHL's best defenceman in the 1980–81 season and serving as a captain of both the Penguins and Jets.

Canadian - Coach | Born: April 19, 1956

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When you lose the shootout, you feel like you lost the hockey game, ... But we didn't lose the hockey game. We lost a point and they gained a point. That's the reality of it.

Randy Carlyle

How it works is you have an organization that provides you with players, and our job, as we’ve said all along, is just to coach ’em up.

Randy Carlyle

The coaching profession doesn't hand you any gifts.

Randy Carlyle

I don't think you can really expect to win a hockey game giving up three power-play goals. In reality, you cant give up those and that's the difference in the hockey game.

Randy Carlyle

You have to have short-term memory. You have to be able to move on to the next practice, the next game, turn the page and keep your emotions so you make the decisions that are best for your group.

Randy Carlyle

Obviously, we were fortunate to win the hockey game, and we'll take it, because there have been some games that we haven't been fortunate enough in. I don't think we played exceptionally well from any standpoint, other than our first period. And our goaltender really stole the game for us. In all reality, you have to give him credit for the win. He stole the points.

Randy Carlyle

The brain is closer to the skull.

Randy Carlyle

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Randy Carlyle

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