Top 28 Quotes by Mark Messier

I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

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

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

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

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 think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey.

I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.

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.