Jacques Plante Quotes

I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.

I think my speed is one of my biggest assets.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.

I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young.

You slow down when you get older.

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

I'm so uncoordinated, I can't really do that much, so my specialty is standing in one spot or holding on to something, like an exploding rocket or a jetski.

Scouts have always been surprised by the way I'm able to move at my size. How fast and agile I am.

I like my hands. They're certainly scarred up, but they're wormy. They're knuckly. They're hands that have done stuff, and they're not going anywhere.

I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.

Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.

I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.

Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.

When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.

Hockey is the original extreme sport.

If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity.

I was small, but I was also slow.

The older you get, the longer your jump shot becomes.

I've never been fast, but I can move well enough to do what I need to do.

Obviously, you have to have some physical ability to play quarterback in the NFL.

I've been double-teamed my whole life. I know when a double team's coming. I know what side the guy's coming from. I know how to dribble out of it.

I do a lot of things well, I'm very athletic, I play against guys who are also very athletic.

I have made a lot of progress, above all in speed, reflexes, and experience.

I haven't just got a fight IQ - and I'm clever. I've got that power. I've got that movement. I've got that timing.