Patrick Roy Quotes

At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.

I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.

Stanley Cup hockey comes around every year, when games start to count in multiples of best-of-seven series, and the players seem to put more attention into every pass, every check, every annoying little trick.

I am very passionate about Indian hockey.

In hockey, sometimes a shift can go for a minute and a half, full out.

The space between keepers and defenders is referred to as the 'corridor of opportunity' - a well-hit pass in there has the goalie questioning whether to come into traffic and defenders unsure of whether or where to clear the ball.

I had Lana and she was the number one player on my team

Roger [Federer], he brought tennis... one level higher. Normally he toys with everybody. With all respect to other players, he does whatever he wants on the court against them. It's incredible what kind of game he can play.

After referees negated a line change that led to Tampa Bay"s winning goal in the Stanley Cup Playoffs: After all these years in the league, am I that stupid that I would put four forwards and one defenseman in a 3-3 tie, in the third period? I think everybody that knows me here knows I"m not that stupid. I might be halfway stupid, but not that stupid.

There have been so many outstanding players I've had as team-mates, but if I had to choose I'd choose Giggsy, he can do anything.

At Alabama, our players don't win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships.

Neymar is undoubtedly the best player in Brazil. He deserves to play in the best team in the world; next to the best player in the world, Messi.He is a very good player with great quality and a great future.I have no doubt. For me, Neymar is a genius.

Each team always has that one power player, even Carmelo. Those are the guys who would represent the logo.

His return gives England another key to its bow.

I really felt like we had to have a go to player.

When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.

I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.

The only true satisfaction a player receives is the satisfaction that comes from being part of a successful team, regardless of his personal accomplishments.

To have a successful team, you have to have great players of course - but you have to have good personalities and good people as well.

As a typically ambitious player, I did what all others of that ilk do: Everything I could do to gain advantage for my PCs and rise in level as rapidly as possible.

Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's.

Without any doubt the best player in the Premiership has to be Paul Scholes. He knows how to do everything, and he is the one who directs the way his team plays. On top of that, he has indestructible mental strength, and he is a genuine competitor.

Hockey is my life, you know. If I do not play hockey, I do not know what I do.

It's not that difficult to play well and win titles in a team like Barcelona, but it's in the national side where you see a player's true class. That was the case with figures like Pele, Diego Maradona and Zinedine Zidane. With Spain, Iniesta has shown that he is among the best players of all time and that's why I rate him higher than Messi or Ronaldo. Even though the latter two have incredible scoring records for their clubs, they still haven't won anything with Argentina or Portugal respectively.

When you look at all of the great players who ever played the game, they all had that other gear that they could go to, and it makes a world of difference.