Quotes from Brad Marchand

When you win the Cup, you need everything to line up. You need to get lucky, you need guys to stay healthy, you need guys to play well at the right time.

We rush through this career and it ends abruptly for the most part.

Being an agitator gives me an opportunity to draw penalties against the other team. That's one part that brings emotion to my game.

It isn't something I'm out there looking to do - take minor penalties.

I think when I was younger, I knew I was either going to get a penalty or score a goal. It was a gamble. But it benefited me.

I think the biggest thing in my game is my confidence.

Boston has become my second home. I absolutely love it there.

We want to be better players than we do a pest, but you have to find something to do coming into the League.

When your team does well and you're winning then everyone has success from that. You see that with all Cup-winning teams. Those guys end up having long careers.

I had to play a certain way to get in the league. That's kind of where I came from. I wouldn't change a thing going back, I wouldn't change anything that happened.

It's always a lot easier when you have people around you supporting you.

I mean, that's playoff hockey. You're not going to dominate every game, you're not going to score every goal.

You have to be able to win on the road if you want to win in the playoffs.

That's what you need to win a Cup and go far in the playoffs, you need every guy to be accountable in all areas of the ice.

I'm not a big poker guy, I like to play shnarps.

It's tough being a small player. You don't want to be known as a guy who goes into the corner and loses 50 percent of the battles.

There are a lot of things people want to look at, pick apart my game, but if you could put any of them in my position, to do anything to make their dream come true... I'm pretty damn sure they'd do it, too.

Every guy that I've talked to would love to have that opportunity to go, and I don't think there's one guy who's ever said that they don't want to go to the Olympics. That's a dream and something that very few people get to realize.

Sometimes, you go down to Florida and Tampa and you get a couple days off, you can get complacent.

Deep down I think I'm a lovable guy.

I have been a Bruin since the start of my pro career and there is no place I would rather play.

Especially young guys, it's always fun to see young guys come in and have that same enthusiasm about playing a certain way and fitting into a certain role and going after guys, trying to get them off their game.

In playoffs, it's so emotional and the tension's really high and guys are laying everything on the line. And when you do that, things get chippy and guys are playing aggressively, and I think it just comes out in the playoffs a little more. When you know what's on the line and what you're expected to do, it just comes out.

For me, when I came in, I was always worried about making the other guys happy and giving them the puck and almost giving them a little too much respect. It can take away from your game a little bit.