Top 45 Martin Brodeur Quotes

Patrick Roy was my idol when I was growing up.

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.

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

It’s a dream come true to be part of an NHL team, to be a regular in the NHL, to live the life, to make the money and do all that stuff.

I love being part of a team.

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

I know there is a lot of pressure on a goalie, a lot of responsibilities, but if you add on to yourself more than you need to, it makes it harder to deal with the adversity.

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.

In life, nothing is always fun.

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

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

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

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.

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

Photography was a big part of our family.

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

For some reason, people think goalies need their rest.

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.

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.

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

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.

You compare a goalie position to a quarterback to a pitcher. You’re going to make that decision of what’s gonna happen to you. They’re a high-pressure position. They’re fun just for that.

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.

I think the NHL has done a great job of building the sport as far as getting the people’s attention and letting them know what’s going on in hockey – especially when the powers meet each other.

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

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

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’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.

It’s almost mind-boggling how time flies.

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

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

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

When I got the call of being drafted by the Devils, I was in shock more than anything. I didn’t have a clue where New Jersey was, but it was just nice to be taken in the first round and nice to know where my future would be, which organization I was going to be a part of.

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.

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

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 played hockey with the best of them.

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

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

It’s just part of me, playing the puck.

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

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.

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

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

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.