Mark Messier Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.”

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

“Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.”

“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.”

“If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard.”

“There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.”

“When Wayne was traded, I became captain. For me it really wasn't anything - I didn't do anything or I didn't feel I had to do anything different than what I had been doing all along.”