78 Quotes by Mark Messier

It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game.

I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.

I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

I would never say one was more important or more gratifying than the next because there's a tremendous amount of work, as you know, that goes into winning a cup.

Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.

I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams.

We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time.

I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant.