Jarome Iginla Quotes

The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.

As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics.

The All-Star Game was one of my top highlights as a player. In my eye, it gave me a good idea of where I ranked among my peers. That was always my benchmark to say that I am still in the upper echelon of players.

It's a big step to be drafted. Ultimately, it's everybody's dream. That's where you start thinking about making the team, maybe about winning the Stanley Cup.

It's a dream come true to be part of an NHL team, to be a regular in the NHL, to live the life, to make the money and do all that stuff.

Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.

Winning the Stanley Cup in '99 was a dream come true. I'll never forget it.

I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.

People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.

The Olympic Gold medal in 1968 was definitely the highest moment of my career. It was a dream come true. I was a 19-year-old boy, and it was just amazing to be standing on top of the podium and hearing the National Anthem in the background.

Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.

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

When I was six, right before I started swimming, we went to a national competition here in Maryland and watched Michael Phelps swim, and I got to meet him afterwards, and I got his autograph. Fast forward nine years, and I'm at the Olympics with him, and it's like: 'Woah.'

I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.

It was a dream come true for me to be at the Olympics.

Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.

Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.

I was lucky enough to have a hockey career in the NHL.

See, when I went to the Olympics in '76, the gymnastics people knew that I was good, but everybody else, after I won, everybody was like, 'Where's she coming from? Who is she? What is Romania?'

Anyone who plays in the NHL dreams to win the Stanley Cup and I dreamed as well to be one of them and raise the cup in Washington and bring it home to Moscow and celebrate with my friends and my parents.

If you would have told me that I'd be in a European final back when I was at Maidstone then I wouldn't have believed you.

Competing in my first Olympics in the country where my parents came from is pretty insane. I'm feeling nothing but excitement.

Ever since I was a kid and all the time I have played in the NHL, NHL players have played in the Olympic Games.

I never won a Vezina Trophy until I won the Olympic gold medal.

London was my first Olympics. It was my dream to get there, and I literally had the time of my life.