Top 28 Quotes by Mark Messier

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.

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 never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.

But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.

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

25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that.

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

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