Martin Brodeur

“As a player you get to meet Hall of Fame members and now to have my name in the same sentence makes me speechless.”

“It's kind of funny the way it happened - the way I became a goalie. I was playing forward on this one team when I was little, and there was another team that needed a backup goalie. I mean, to me it just meant a chance to play more hockey, so I was all for it.”

“I've always played hockey to win, not to get shutouts.”

“I hate not playing. That's the bottom line.”

“I couldn't care less lots of times about getting scored on late in a game because it would affect my goals-against average or my save percentage.”

“When you're a kid you always played to win a Stanley Cup in the streets or on the outdoor rinks, and when you do it for real, it's a pretty cool moment, it's something that I'm always going to remember.”

“When I got the call of being drafted by the Devils, I was in shock more than anything. I didn't have a clue where New Jersey was, but it was just nice to be taken in the first round and nice to know where my future would be, which organization I was going to be a part of.”

“When you play hockey, you don't realize how much it takes to put a team together and the business people around the team, what they do to get the franchise to the next level.”

“You go through playoff series and people forget about them. Nobody forgets about a Rangers-Devils series. It's demanding.”

“For some reason, people think goalies need their rest.”

“I'm just a hockey player. I want to play every day.”

“I think if you want to be a successful president or a manager of a team, you need to understand what the business is all about because you have to deal with the business side of the game to be able to do what you need to do.”

“People should realize my job is not as tough as a forward playing 80 games and getting hit every day.”

“I love being part of a team.”

“In New Jersey, we won in '95, but after that for four years we never had a sniff at it. The next thing you know we went on a run of three Stanley Cup Finals in four years in 2000, 2001 and 2003.”

“I'd never be a jerk with my teammates because I know I need them to be successful.”

“I think I was just really comfortable in my goalie equipment, just being in the net and being by myself for 60 minutes and talking to myself sometimes.”

“Getting into the Hall is such an honor. It's like the dessert of your career. The Hall is the top of the mountain.”

“Every year you go out and there are teams you have success against and there are teams that are a little tougher.”

“I'm just glad that people think I'm good. The other way around would not be fun!”