Mark Messier Quotes

That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.

It's been a good hockey life for me anyway.

Anyone who plays in the NHL dreams to win the Stanley Cup and I dreamed as well to be one of them and raise the cup in Washington and bring it home to Moscow and celebrate with my friends and my parents.

Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.

I think, growing up, I was seen as the perfect power forward. For a long time, I thought maybe I was supposed to be a basketball player.

It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.

My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.

I always played hockey, I was always a hockey fan, but I was never bitten by the hockey bug... I never looked into playing it professionally.

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.

I will say I love competing, and I was in a great era of playing with young Phil Mickelson and older Greg Norman and Nick Price. I don't know if YA Title could throw the ball these days, but you can play golf for a long, long time.

I was lucky enough to have a hockey career in the NHL.

It's a big step to be drafted. Ultimately, it's everybody's dream. That's where you start thinking about making the team, maybe about winning the Stanley Cup.

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

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

Maybe playing in the NHL would be pretty nice, but that's more of a pipe dream for me.

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

But once I left home to play hockey, it was a commitment to be the best I could be and try to make the NHL.

I remember starting hockey at age 7 and going to my first tryout and dreaming about how great it would be, and it's been even better. These 20 years in the NHL, it's been better.

For me, my hockey career is all about the Devils.

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.

Seventeen years is a long time to be playing this game. It's two careers for a lot of people.

You get drafted by an NHL team, you're kind of living the good life. So, I mean for me, it's all awesome.