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.

Martin Brodeur

War Funny Chance

It's almost mind-boggling how time flies.

Time Time Flies Tim

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.

Martin Brodeur

Work War Time

If I'm not going to play a lot I'd like to have a chance to win every time I jump between the pipes.

Martin Brodeur

Time Chance Win

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.

Martin Brodeur

Time Car Age

When I got drafted I just wanted to play one game in the NHL. I didn't really care anything about winning.

Martin Brodeur

Car Winning Win

I try to eat a lot of carbs, especially the day of the game, because it fills you up. I have my breakfast and I have a huge lunch before I play. For me it's always having pasta and chicken to get some protein in me, so I don't play on an empty stomach at night. The day before a game it's high protein, mostly, with fish or steak, but nothing crazy.

Martin Brodeur

Car You Wit

When you play hockey, it's a team game, and when I win, everyone around me is happy. I was able to make my teammates, the organization, my fans, happy 691 times during the regular season.

Martin Brodeur

Time You Win

You have to go through some adversity to be able to be successful.

Martin Brodeur

Success You Through

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.

Martin Brodeur

Time Men Us

I had never won anything until I won my first Stanley Cup.

Martin Brodeur

Won Up Until

My life was going to school, having a snack and going outside to play hockey until dinner time. I would then do my homework and go back out to play, but only if the Canadiens weren't playing that night. That's what I did every day, whether it was street hockey or pond hockey.

Martin Brodeur

Work Time Life

In New Jersey, you're able to live your life.

Martin Brodeur

Life Your You

I've played golf everywhere in New Jersey. People are nice to me. It's great.

Martin Brodeur

Great Where Very

Yes, there's Montreal, but my real home, where my kids were born, where I became a citizen of this country, is New Jersey.

Martin Brodeur

Home Zen Yes

Winning makes coaches, teammates, owners, fans all happy... I didn't care if we win 7-6 as long as we win.

Martin Brodeur

Car Winning Win

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

Martin Brodeur

Car Your You

Growing up, I'd never play goalie in street hockey or at shinny. I liked playing out. So the entire time I played goal, I liked handling the puck better than most.

Martin Brodeur

Time Yin Wing

The most important record is the wins record that I have.

Martin Brodeur

Wins Win The Most Important

If you play hockey, you might as well win.

Martin Brodeur

You Win Well

When I get scored on or something doesn't go my way, I think of what I'm able to do and I'm reminded that I'm capable of doing it. I'm honest about myself - I know I'm not going to stop everything, so I don't try for perfection. I'm going to try to get there, but I know I'll never be perfect. I think that helps me to deal with everything.

Martin Brodeur

Wit Way Very

Coming from Montreal, Patrick Roy was the guy that everybody looked up to. He was consistent and successful early in his career; he won the Stanley Cup when he was really young and he played with a great organization. For me it was also a French thing, like one of us had made it that big in the NHL, and you tried to follow in his footsteps.

Martin Brodeur

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.

Martin Brodeur

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.

Martin Brodeur

I wasn't ready to get drafted in the first round.

Martin Brodeur

It's a big step to be drafted. Ultimately, it's everybody's dream. That's where you start thinking about making the team, maybe about winning the Stanley Cup.

Martin Brodeur

I wanted to be consistent in my career and not have an off year. I wanted to play well and be on top of things.

Martin Brodeur

Sometimes as a goalie, it doesn't matter how good you are, everything has to fall right for you.

Martin Brodeur

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.

Martin Brodeur

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.

Martin Brodeur

My dad took a lot of pride in what he did for a living.

Martin Brodeur

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

Martin Brodeur

For some reason, people think goalies need their rest.

Martin Brodeur

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

Martin Brodeur

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

Martin Brodeur

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.

Martin Brodeur

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.

Martin Brodeur

There's so much of a rivalry there, the Devils and Rangers.

Martin Brodeur

It's amazing what the power of sport does for children and communities.

Martin Brodeur

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.'

Martin Brodeur

I was fortunate to have talent, play on a good team and make the NHL.

Martin Brodeur

Winning is what I need, and winning is what the team needs.

Martin Brodeur

Playing for Canada changed my career.

Martin Brodeur

Competition, for me, is healthy.

Martin Brodeur

I watch a lot of tapes, a lot of games, all the replays. You watch the highlights on TV, those are all about goals getting scored or big saves. So you just look and see what guys do and how they're successful, and sometimes I see something and I go, Wow, that could work for me.

Martin Brodeur

You act in different ways for your own personal well-being, and you don't think about the people you hurt along the way. wish I would have thought about it.

Martin Brodeur

I don't know where sports in general will go. But when I grew up, you just played the sport. Parents just wanted to make sure that you were happy doing something.

Martin Brodeur

Growing up in Quebec, we were always playing sports. Your first athletic competition was against the kids living on your block.

Martin Brodeur

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.

Martin Brodeur

My dad used to be a goalie. He actually won a bronze medal with Team Canada in 1956.

Martin Brodeur

After his hockey days, my dad became a photographer, and a really good one, at that. He used to shoot the Expos and Canadiens, and he'd give me five bucks to haul around his equipment during games. He never had to ask me twice to do it.

Martin Brodeur