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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• At the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals: Win today and we walk together forever.

  Fred Shero

  Hockey, Winning, Forever

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• 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.

  Pat Burns

  Stupid, Hockey, Winning

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• Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season.

  Peter Bondra

  Couple, Team, Winning

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• I'd rather have a 16, as in Stanley Cup playoff wins.

  Lindy Ruff

  Winning, Cups, Playoffs

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• Winning a Stanley Cup for Toronto, that's the biggest dream and the biggest goal.

  Mats Sundin

  Dream, Winning, Goal

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