Martin Brodeur Quotes

I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.

You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.

I grew up in New Jersey and played sports and rode my bike around. It was a really nice time - kids didn't have cellphones then - and you knew everyone in the town.

We had a court, and my brothers would play outdoors, with rims barely hanging in there.

When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.

I grew up - for a while, the only show I could watch if I hadn't finished my homework was 'The Simpsons,' because I think my parents saw that there was some real-life lessons to take from that.

Whenever I wasn't working, I had my butt back in normal school.

I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.

I was really active as a kid. I was outdoors constantly.

I hardly went to school.

Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn't play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.

I was a typical American boy. I did a lot of outdoor activities, played a lot outside with my friends, loved to go the beach, liked to hike, boating and fishing, and I flew a lot of model airplanes as well.

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

At school, if I was ever bored in class, I would draw maps of islands or detailed interior of boats or lists of provisions and equipment I would need when I went camping in the summer.

My family lives a pretty normal life.

You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

I have very fond memories of growing up in Greece, of my brothers and I causing chaos and climbing up trees, which is really cool. Back then, we didn't have all the video games and all that stuff. We just had each other, and we played on the street.

When I was a kid, school recess and physical education class were times for kids to run around and play games.

When I'm home, I go back to the same routine that I've had since I was a kid.

I never cared about money. When I was at school, I never wanted a car. I was focused on sports, studies, camping, being outdoors.

When I was a kid, we played outside until we couldn't see and had to go in. I rode my bicycle and played tag football, kick the can, and hide-and-go-seek.