Top 70 Martin Brodeur Quotes

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.

I’ve tried so far to learn as much as possible. I think I’ve got a good grasp of what a hockey GM needs to do.

Competition, for me, is healthy.

Growing up, I’d never play goalie in street hockey or at shinny. I liked playing out. So the entire time I played goal, I liked handling the puck better than most.

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

When you’re a kid you always played to win a Stanley Cup in the streets or on the outdoor rinks, and when you do it for real, it’s a pretty cool moment, it’s something that I’m always going to remember.

There’s so much of a rivalry there, the Devils and Rangers.

I watch a lot of tapes, a lot of games, all the replays. You watch the highlights on TV, those are all about goals getting scored or big saves. So you just look and see what guys do and how they’re successful, and sometimes I see something and I go, Wow, that could work for me.

I didn’t take any shortcuts for my success, that’s for sure.

Playing for Canada changed my career.

The most important record is the wins record that I have.

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

You act in different ways for your own personal well-being, and you don’t think about the people you hurt along the way. wish I would have thought about it.

Hockey is just a game.

Winning makes coaches, teammates, owners, fans all happy… I didn’t care if we win 7-6 as long as we win.

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

I don’t know where sports in general will go. But when I grew up, you just played the sport. Parents just wanted to make sure that you were happy doing something.

In life, nothing is always fun.

I think my mom is the person that holds the family together. For birthdays, for the holidays or whatever, everything has to go through my mom. She’s the one reminding us about everything that’s going on in the family, she’s in touch with everybody while we’re on our own doing our things.

I wanted to be consistent in my career and not have an off year. I wanted to play well and be on top of things.

Growing up in Quebec, we were always playing sports. Your first athletic competition was against the kids living on your block.

In New Jersey, you’re able to live your life.

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.

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.

I loved the city of St. Louis.

It’s amazing what the power of sport does for children and communities.

You learn from your mistakes and you learn from your failures. It’s how you get up that defines you to a certain extent.

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

I hate not playing. That’s the bottom line.

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

Every team writes its own story.

My dad took a lot of pride in what he did for a living.

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

It’s kind of funny the way it happened – the way I became a goalie. I was playing forward on this one team when I was little, and there was another team that needed a backup goalie. I mean, to me it just meant a chance to play more hockey, so I was all for it.

Sometimes as a goalie, it doesn’t matter how good you are, everything has to fall right for you.

Getting into the Hall is such an honor. It’s like the dessert of your career. The Hall is the top of the mountain.

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

I played hockey with the best of them.

I was fortunate to have talent, play on a good team and make the NHL.

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

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.

After his hockey days, my dad became a photographer, and a really good one, at that. He used to shoot the Expos and Canadiens, and he’d give me five bucks to haul around his equipment during games. He never had to ask me twice to do it.

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.

For some reason, people think goalies need their rest.

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

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.

Every Christmas we went to my parents’ cottage. My big brother would bring his buddies around, and we would play hockey games in the driveway.

I had never won anything until I won my first Stanley Cup.

I’ve played golf everywhere in New Jersey. People are nice to me. It’s great.

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.

In New Jersey, we won in ’95, but after that for four years we never had a sniff at it. The next thing you know we went on a run of three Stanley Cup Finals in four years in 2000, 2001 and 2003.

I wasn’t ready to get drafted in the first round.

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

If you play hockey, you might as well win.

I’m just a hockey player. I want to play every day.

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 just part of me, playing the puck.

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

There is no way I could’ve been so durable playing in the Western Conference. The travel is nuts.

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

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

Winning is what I need, and winning is what the team needs.

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

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.

Yes, there’s Montreal, but my real home, where my kids were born, where I became a citizen of this country, is New Jersey.

Patrick Roy was my idol when I was growing up.

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.

I love being part of a team.

My dad used to be a goalie. He actually won a bronze medal with Team Canada in 1956.