Brad Marchand Quotes

You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with.

A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.

You cannot just allow your team to stink.

I say the Islanders were the best team I ever covered because they had more so many stars who delivered with Canadian-Swedish-suburban modesty. And they won four straight Stanley Cups from 1980 through 1983.

I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

I really think just the honor of playing on five championship teams in seven years is the best thing.

Hopefully, I can keep scoring more goals, make more assists, break more records and help my team, which is the most important thing.

What I don't want to be is the most important person of the club. If we win a game, it was the players who played very well.

It doesn't matter how well you play individually if the team isn't winning.

It's not always the best roster that wins, it's the best team, and sometimes that maybe doesn't jell all that well.

When the team's not playing well offensively, it's always a problem for me because I'm not an individualistic player.

The more better players we have at Barcelona, the better it is for the team and coach.

How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate

Even when you have skilled, motivated, hard-working people, the wrong team structure can undercut their efforts instead of catapulting them to success. A poor team structure can increase development time, reduce quality, damage morale, increase turnover, and ultimately lead to project cancellation.

When you are speaking to your team after a game, never talk about the kid who was the star of the game. Talk about what your other players did to help the team win. Be sure to spread the wealth... Then have individual meetings with one to three players to praise and reinforce. Make sure you touch them.

I think teams win. I don't think offense wins. I don't think defense wins. I don't think special teams - teams win.

Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars.

I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

Obviously, being a forward, I would like to score more goals. But while the team does well, there is no problem.

I'm not one who's big on accolades and all those things. I did my job and I'm proud of what I did and how I did it.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

When I had people scratchin' my shorts a bit, it played better. We lost a bit of that in all the personnel changes and it's an element we need to get back.

We have played so well that the guys have really made my job fairly easy.