These Stanley Cup quotes will inspire you. The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging Stanley Cup quotes, Stanley Cup sayings, and Stanley Cup proverbs.
Best Stanley Cup Quotes
- “I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams.” ~ Mark Messier
- “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.” ~ Marcel Dionne
- “We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup-winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that’s when you know it’s game over.” ~ Steve Yzerman
- “He’s only 4 years old, so I don’t think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don’t think he realized how many years I played.” ~ Mario Lemieux
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“One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy.” ~ George Vecsey
- “Lifting the Stanley Cup for the first time. There’s nothing like it. It’s the greatest story. In my era, they used to say you couldn’t be a superstar without winning one. I remember thinking when I lifted it: “Now they can’t say that about me.”” ~ Wayne Gretzky
- “As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics.” ~ Joe Sakic
- “Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup.” ~ Sidney Crosby
- “Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.” ~ Bobby Orr , Stanley cup quotes NHL
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“Winning the Stanley Cup in ’99 was a dream come true. I’ll never forget it.” ~ Ed Belfour
- “As long as I could remember since I was 5 years old, I watched the Stanley Cup. I stayed up, made a point of watching it presented, watched the celebration in the locker room, and always dreamed that maybe I’d get there.” ~ Steve Yzerman
- “I didn’t hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears.” ~ Patrick Roy
- “You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.” ~ Guy Lafleur
- “Two or three years ago, every game I want to score. And after I score a goal I have a spark and I’m so happy I want more. Now I’m kind of different. I’m not saying I lost my spark – I still have it – but I don’t chase the goal as much as I used to. I’m playing for the team and I still know I can score, but it’s different than two or three years back. Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season. You have to play defense, that’s how you win.” ~ Peter Bondra
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“Stanley Cup winners don’t hand back the Stanley Cup.” ~ Rob Ford
- “Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.” ~ Ted Lindsay
- “It’s just amazing how many companies suddenly want you to hold up their products after you’ve held up the Stanley Cup.” ~ Wayne Gretzky
- “My only goal is to win the Stanley Cup and do what I have to to win that.” ~ Jeremy Roenick
- “I’d never won the Stanley Cup so I asked Cournoyer right after the final if this was like winning the Cup. He said, ‘This is ten times better.’ I believed him.” ~ Dennis Hull
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“As a sports fan, the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup makes me feel very alive.” ~ Five for Fighting
- “Individual records are nice to get, but before the season starts, you want to play to win the Stanley Cup!” ~ Guy Lafleur
- “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.” ~ Guy Lafleur
- “We should’ve been better, more disciplined. We made untimely mistakes defensively, as a group. This is really humbling for us. After winning the Stanley Cup, we got brought back down to earth, hard. Maybe the humbling is good for us in the long run.” ~ Steve Yzerman
- “The 2006 playoffs were such a rollercoaster for me. I was able to lean on God and know that no matter what things were going to work out the way they were meant to work out. I had that trust that allowed me to go into the games without fear. When I prayed before games, I was able to just let it go. When I played in game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals, I prayed more that day than I have my whole life. That was a day that I leaned on the Lord a lot. It helped me to face some of my fears.” ~ Matt Cullen
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“What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs.” ~ Jack Adams
- “My dad was so influential in my career. It was a fulfillment of every athlete’s dream. I dreamed about it as a kid. We played hockey in the backyard. We had silver buckets we carried around like the Stanley Cup. It was everything that you would hope.” ~ Matt Cullen
- “My dad was so influential in my career. It was a fulfillment of every athlete’s dream. I dreamed about it as a kid. We played hockey in the backyard. We had silver buckets we carried around like the Stanley Cup. It was everything that you would hope.” ~ Matt Cullen
- “I’m competitive. I’d love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That’d be awesome.” ~ Ed Belfour
- “….goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley Cup.” ~ Daniel Goleman
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“I can’t hear what Jeremy says because my ears are blocked with my two Stanley Cup Rings.” ~ Patrick Roy
- “After referees negated a line change that led to Tampa Bay”s winning goal in the Stanley Cup Playoffs: After all these years in the league, am I that stupid that I would put four forwards and one defenseman in a 3-3 tie, in the third period? I think everybody that knows me here knows I”m not that stupid. I might be halfway stupid, but not that stupid.” ~ Pat Burns
- “At the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals: Win today and we walk together forever.” ~ Fred Shero
- “I could not hear what they say about me, my 2 Stanley Cup rings were stuffed in my ears.” ~ Patrick Roy
- “Here in Denver, we want to thank Jeremy Jacobs for the way he runs his business. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have gotten Ray Bourque and won a Stanley Cup.” ~ Joe Sakic
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“What I’ve learned so far from researching is that to win the Stanley Cup, you have to make the playoffs.” ~ Ted Leonsis
- “I won eight Stanley Cups as a player, and I’ve been told it’s because I played on great teams. I won two as a general manager, and I’ve been told it’s because I was lucky.” ~ Serge Savard
- “I’d rather have a 16, as in Stanley Cup playoff wins.” ~ Lindy Ruff
- “Winning a Stanley Cup for Toronto, that’s the biggest dream and the biggest goal.” ~ Mats Sundin
- “I will openly admit that I’ve never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole – even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.” ~ Rachel Nichols
- “Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon.” ~ Gene Hart
- “Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season.” ~ Peter Bondra
