Brad Marchand

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

“There are great players who go unnoticed because they're not on the best teams.”

“There's not a whole lot that fazes me at all.”

“I think when I was younger, I knew I was either going to get a penalty or score a goal. It was a gamble. But it benefited me.”

“Especially young guys, it's always fun to see young guys come in and have that same enthusiasm about playing a certain way and fitting into a certain role and going after guys, trying to get them off their game.”

“I was always taught growing up that great players show up to big games.”

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

“I'm not a big poker guy, I like to play shnarps.”

“If you take guys who have been off who have had very limited opportunity to work out and train and haven't skated in months, you can't just throw them back into games. Everyone's going to get hurt.”

“I don't play in spite of people, I play for the people who pushed me along, the people who have helped me succeed.”

“The mind is such a powerful thing, and when you learn how to control that it really turns a lot of things around.”

“When the team does well we all do well.”

“You need young guys to come in and play like older guys, really help the team and produce.”

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

“Sometimes, you go down to Florida and Tampa and you get a couple days off, you can get complacent.”

“I have to play hard and at the end of the day I still have to strive to protect myself and so does everybody in the league.”

“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 play with good players. So it makes it a lot easier when you're playing with the guys I'm able to play with.”

“For me, when I came in, I was always worried about making the other guys happy and giving them the puck and almost giving them a little too much respect. It can take away from your game a little bit.”

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