Martin Brodeur Quotes

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Martin Brodeur

Profession : Hockey Player

Birth : May 6, 1972

If you play hockey, you might as well win.

Martin Brodeur

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

Martin Brodeur

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

Martin Brodeur

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

Martin Brodeur

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

Martin Brodeur

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.

Martin Brodeur

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.

Martin Brodeur

When kids want a picture or autograph, you reflect later on and realize you did something good. Then you see them come back five years later, they're all grown up, have their own lives and they tell you how much you inspired them. You're like, 'Whoa.'

Martin Brodeur

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

Martin Brodeur

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.

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

Martin Brodeur

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

Martin Brodeur

Hockey's fun.

Martin Brodeur

When I get scored on or something doesn't go my way, I think of what I'm able to do and I'm reminded that I'm capable of doing it. I'm honest about myself - I know I'm not going to stop everything, so I don't try for perfection. I'm going to try to get there, but I know I'll never be perfect. I think that helps me to deal with everything.

Martin Brodeur

When you play hockey, you don't realize how much it takes to put a team together and the business people around the team, what they do to get the franchise to the next level.

Martin Brodeur

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

Martin Brodeur

I've tried to incorporate new ways of playing the game. That's why you hear people call me a 'hybrid goalie' and say I adjust to the situation, never doing the same thing over and over like a butterfly goalie. I try to see what works and hopefully with my talent I'm able to play it and make it happen.

Martin Brodeur

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

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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.

Martin Brodeur

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

Martin Brodeur