A biography for Martin Brodeurhasn’t been written yet.
“Every team writes its own story.”
“I've tried so far to learn as much as possible. I think I've got a good grasp of what a hockey GM needs to do.”
“You compare a goalie position to a quarterback to a pitcher. You're going to make that decision of what's gonna happen to you. They're a high-pressure position. They're fun just for that.”
“I've tried to incorporate new ways of playing the game. That's why you hear people call me a 'hybrid goalie' and say I adjust to the situation, never doing the same thing over and over like a butterfly goalie. I try to see what works and hopefully with my talent I'm able to play it and make it happen.”
“I loved the city of St. Louis.”
“I was fortunate to be part of great teams that had success, and I was part of great teams that didn't have success.”
“I like to play the puck. I like to be creative a little bit around my net, and now it's been taken away.”
“Playing for Canada changed my career.”
“Terry Sawchuk is an icon in our profession.”
“Hockey's fun.”
“Yes, there's Montreal, but my real home, where my kids were born, where I became a citizen of this country, is New Jersey.”
“Sometimes as a goalie, it doesn't matter how good you are, everything has to fall right for you.”
“When kids want a picture or autograph, you reflect later on and realize you did something good. Then you see them come back five years later, they're all grown up, have their own lives and they tell you how much you inspired them. You're like, 'Whoa.'”
“Hockey is just a game.”
“For me, it's not a struggle to go out and play hockey. Under pressure, I feel it to a certain extent... but, I'm not scared of it.”
“On the personal level, it's hard for a goalie. You don't get awards for save percentage or anything like that. Your work is really put into how many wins you can get, how many times you can get your team in the playoffs and all that. So I took a lot of pride in winning.”
“Every Christmas we went to my parents' cottage. My big brother would bring his buddies around, and we would play hockey games in the driveway.”
“There are good people here in the Midwest. That's for sure.”
“My durability is just something I took a lot of pride in, that I was able to play 70 games over and over and over and they add up to 1,200-and-something games, plus the playoff games, plus whatever.”
“Well, as a player you try to learn how to win, and when you get exposed to success there's also disappointment that comes along the way. So it becomes about how you deal with the ups and downs.”