Quotes About The Stanley Cup

#1. One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy.

George Vecsey

#2. As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics.

Joe Sakic

#3. Life would be better if the Leafs would make the playoffs. Life would be perfect if they'd win the Stanley Cup.

Tom Earle

#4. We should've been better, more disciplined. We made untimely mistakes defensively, as a group. This is really humbling for us. After winning the Stanley Cup, we got brought back down to earth, hard. Maybe the humbling is good for us in the long run.

Steve Yzerman

#5. For good reasons, there are no ties during the Stanley Cup season. Somebody needs to win so the lads can get out to their cottages on the lakes, where all hockey players spend their summers, or so I have been told.

George Vecsey

#6. He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played.

Mario Lemieux

#7. Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season.

Peter Bondra

#8. We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.

Steve Yzerman

#9. Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.

Guy Lafleur

#10. Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon.

Gene Hart

#11. It's obviously disappointing and surreal when you see someone else win the Stanley Cup.

Patrick Kane

#12. I'd never won the Stanley Cup so I asked Cournoyer right after the final if this was like winning the Cup. He said, 'This is ten times better.' I believed him.

Dennis Hull

#13. My only goal is to win the Stanley Cup and do what I have to to win that.

Jeremy Roenick

#14. It's just amazing how many companies suddenly want you to hold up their products after you've held up the Stanley Cup.

Wayne Gretzky

#15. I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.

Rachel Nichols

#16. My dad was so influential in my career. It was a fulfillment of every athlete's dream. I dreamed about it as a kid. We played hockey in the backyard. We had silver buckets we carried around like the Stanley Cup. It was everything that you would hope.

Matt Cullen

#17. What I've learned so far from researching is that to win the Stanley Cup, you have to make the playoffs.

Ted Leonsis

#18. War of attrition, war of wills. That's what the Stanley Cup playoffs are - more intense, more physical and more prolonged than the playoffs of any other sport.

George Vecsey

#19. As a sports fan, the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup makes me feel very alive.

Five For Fighting

#20. As long as I could remember, since I was 5 years old, I watched the Stanley Cup. I stayed up, made a point of watching it presented, watched the celebration in the locker room, and always dreamed that maybe I'd get there.

Steve Yzerman

#21. What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Jack Adams

#22. You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.

Guy Lafleur

#23. Individual records are nice to get, but before the season starts, you want to play to win the Stanley Cup!

Guy Lafleur

#24. Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup.

Sidney Crosby

#25. Winning the Stanley Cup in '99 was a dream come true. I'll never forget it.

Ed Belfour

#26. Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.

Bobby Orr

#27. I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being from Canada this is their Stanley Cup - they made it. It's hard enough to get here and it's hard enough to advance.

John Atkinson

#28. Here in Denver, we want to thank Jeremy Jacobs for the way he runs his business. Otherwise, we wouldn't have gotten Ray Bourque and won a Stanley Cup.

Joe Sakic

#29. It's a Stanley Cup thing. The boys mangle one another for a series, performing all kinds of nasty tricks, then they make nice, shaking soggy hands as the teams shuffle in opposite directions.

George Vecsey

#30. Stanley Cup hockey comes around every year, when games start to count in multiples of best-of-seven series, and the players seem to put more attention into every pass, every check, every annoying little trick.

George Vecsey

#31. At the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals: Win today and we walk together forever.

Fred Shero

#32. You have to want to put a competitive, Stanley Cup-caliber team on the ice in contrast to wanting to hopefully someday financially break even. So you have to really balance expenses with revenue.

Henry Samueli

#33. Winning a Stanley Cup for Toronto, that's the biggest dream and the biggest goal.

Mats Sundin

#34. People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.

Marcel Dionne

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

Mark Messier

#36. Certain Stanley Cup traditions remain intact, including the handshake line between players who had been belting one another for a couple of weeks.

George Vecsey