Quotes from Martin Brodeur

I'm a regular hockey guy.

The thing about hockey for me is I'm really competitive and I like to have fun.

Hockey is just a game.

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 played hockey with the best of them.

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

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

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.

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.

Patrick Roy was my idol when I was growing up.

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.

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.

Every team writes its own story.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 loved the city of St. Louis.

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

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.

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