Quotes from Martin Brodeur

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Playing for Canada changed my career.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

When you play hockey, it's a team game, and when I win, everyone around me is happy. I was able to make my teammates, the organization, my fans, happy 691 times during the regular season.

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

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

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

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