Top 28 Quotes by Mark Messier

I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.

The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.

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

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.

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

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.

Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.

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.

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