Quotes from Brad Marchand

The leadership group I had to follow is very easy to walk in their footsteps and try to be like them. You try and set that same example for the guys coming up.

There's so much to benefit from being able to control your mind in certain situations and it just keeps you even-keel all the time when things are going well and when they're not. That's one thing that I've always had a bit of a tough time doing. When I get up, I get excited. When I'm down, I get pretty frustrated.

I can never say enough good things about Boston.

Maybe playing around and having fun is considered being a rat... I guess I'm a rat.

I'm not always a rat. Sometimes it just comes out.

When you react to things, that's when you get into trouble and it's tough to completely control a split-second reaction.

I've won midget championships, a junior-league title, two World Junior Championships and some other minor-hockey championships, but I don't think teams win because I'm on them.

I've always enjoyed the emotion of being out there in the last minute of a game or the last couple minutes down by a goal. I think a lot of guys tend to thrive in that situation and I prefer to be out there.

When we do, when we're playing physical and we're playing tight, playing with emotion, we play well.

Practice makes perfect and if you practice battling and competing and working hard, then that will transfer over in a game. If you practice just kind of floating around out there in practice, you know that's going to transfer over, too. So I think the harder you work and the more you compete, then that's how you're going to play in a game.

Halifax is a big hockey city. Everyone loves the game here and really enjoys anyone who has had success.

I remember being 20 years old and I'm living by myself for the first time with my buddies and what you're worried about day to day is what am I going to eat for dinner? I don't know how to cook, so I've got to get canned food. Those are the only worries you have in the world.

I've always been the kind of guy to take it day by day with not a whole lot of worries.

When you're able to rely on four lines and every D and both goalies, it's big.

When you're out there and you see how excited the kids get to talk to you and how much they enjoy watching us play, it's really touching and I think we all appreciate what we do so much more when you see the excitement that you bring; especially with the kids.

My dad was a big grinder, a tough guy. I inherited that from him.

It's tough to lose, but it's a lot tougher to lose knowing how good it is to win, how good it feels to win.

There's very few guys that play for one team their whole careers, nowadays, especially in the cap era it's a lot tougher.

I'm in the NHL and I'll take whatever reputation I can to get here and to stay here.

Winning the Cup at a young age is a whole other level.

When you're a young kid and you come into the NHL, you're given money and fame, to an extent, especially in Boston.

I'm a lot smaller than most guys, so I have to make up with grittiness and show I can work the hardest, show I'm strong on my skates and show I can push some people around.

I don't bite the hand that feeds me. I'm a little smarter than that.

I just remember I'd snap over little things when I was younger a lot. It was more just trying to control yourself in certain situations and learn how to harness that anger.