Stanley Cup Quotes

I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams.

Mark Messier

Sports, Team, Winning

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People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.

Marcel Dionne

Regret, Hockey, Winning

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We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.

Steve Yzerman

Sports, Team, Winning

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He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played.

Mario Lemieux

Sports, Thinking, Years

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Lifting the Stanley Cup for the first time. There's nothing like it. It's the greatest story. In my era, they used to say you couldn't be a superstar without winning one. I remember thinking when I lifted it: "Now they can't say that about me."

Wayne Gretzky

Winning, Thinking, Stories

"Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life". Interview with Jonathon Gatehouse, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy.

George Vecsey

Hockey, Healthy, Cups

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Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup.

Sidney Crosby

Winning, Goal, Honor

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As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics.

Joe Sakic

Dream, Kids, Winning

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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.

Bobby Orr

Dream, Growing Up, Team

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As long as I could remember, since I was 5 years old, I watched the Stanley Cup. I stayed up, made a point of watching it presented, watched the celebration in the locker room, and always dreamed that maybe I'd get there.

Steve Yzerman

Years, Long, Lockers

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I didn't hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears.

Patrick Roy

Hockey, Two, Cups

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You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.

Guy Lafleur

Hockey, Winning, Play

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Winning the Stanley Cup in '99 was a dream come true. I'll never forget it.

Ed Belfour

Dream, Winning, Cups

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Two or three years ago, every game I want to score. And after I score a goal I have a spark and I'm so happy I want more. Now I'mkind of different. I'm not saying I lost my spark - I still have it - but I don't chase the goal as much as I used to. I'm playing for the team andI still know I can score, but it's different than two or three years back.Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they winthe Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season. You have to play defense, that's how you win.

Peter Bondra

Couple, Team, Hockey

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Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

Ted Lindsay

Memories, Winning, Night

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Individual records are nice to get, but before the season starts, you want to play to win the Stanley Cup!

Guy Lafleur

Nice, Winning, Play

"Guy Lafleur: The Last of the Great Habs Skaters". thehockeywriters.com. November 10, 2017.

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Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.

Guy Lafleur

Careers, Cups, Hometown

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Stanley Cup winners don’t hand back the Stanley Cup.

Rob Ford

Hands, Cups, Winner

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It's just amazing how many companies suddenly want you to hold up their products after you've held up the Stanley Cup.

Wayne Gretzky

Want, Cups, Company

Wayne Gretzky, Reilly, Rick (1990). “Gretzky, An Autobiography”, Harper & Collins

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My only goal is to win the Stanley Cup and do what I have to to win that.

Jeremy Roenick

Winning, Goal, Cups

Source: www.ign.com

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My dad was so influential in my career. It was a fulfillment of every athlete's dream. I dreamed about it as a kid. We played hockey in the backyard. We had silver buckets we carried around like the Stanley Cup. It was everything that you would hope.

Matt Cullen

Dream, Dad, Athlete

"A conversation with Minnesota Wild center Matt Cullen". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. May 6, 2013.

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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.

Ed Belfour

Team, Cups, Another Chance

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....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley Cup.

Daniel Goleman

Emotional, Self, Essence

Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.140, Bantam

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I could not hear what they say about me, my 2 Stanley Cup rings were stuffed in my ears.

Patrick Roy

Hockey, Ears, Cups

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I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.

Rachel Nichols

Sports, Hockey, Fandoms

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