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Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup. -- Sidney Crosby
You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective. -- Guy Lafleur
I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams. -- Mark Messier
As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics. -- Joe Sakic
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
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
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
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
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
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
I didn't hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears. -- Patrick Roy
Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon. -- Gene Hart
What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs. -- Jack Adams
As a sports fan, the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup makes me feel very alive. -- Five for Fighting
My only goal is to win the Stanley Cup and do what I have to to win that. -- Jeremy Roenick
I could not hear what they say about me, my 2 Stanley Cup rings were stuffed in my ears. -- Patrick Roy
Individual records are nice to get, but before the season starts, you want to play to win the Stanley Cup! -- Guy Lafleur
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
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
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
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
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 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
Winning the Stanley Cup in '99 was a dream come true. I'll never forget it. -- Ed Belfour
I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome. -- Ed Belfour
I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being from Canada this is their Stanley Cup - they made it. It's hard enough to get here and it's hard enough to advance. -- John Atkinson
Stanley Cup winners don't hand back the Stanley Cup. -- Rob Ford
I'd rather have a 16, as in Stanley Cup playoff wins. -- Lindy Ruff
Every name looks fashionable when it's etched in silver. (Stanley Cup) -- Bruce Boudreau
At the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals: Win today and we walk together forever. -- Fred Shero
Winning a Stanley Cup for Toronto, that's the biggest dream and the biggest goal. -- Mats Sundin
One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy. -- George Vecsey
I can't hear what Jeremy says because my ears are blocked with my two Stanley Cup Rings. -- Patrick Roy
What I've learned so far from researching is that to win the Stanley Cup, you have to make the playoffs. -- Ted Leonsis
I've seen 48 Stanley Cups in my life. I was about six or seven when I started going to games with my dad. -- Al Jourgensen
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
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
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
....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
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
All the people that come out and show their support and their pride for your accomplishments, I think it really reminds you that without people you don't ever to get to live that dream. To play in the NHL is one thing, but to win the Stanley Cup and come back and share it with everyone is another thing. -- Jonathan Toews
The school I went to was a little farm school in Wannaska, student body 61 or something. There was a kid, the only black kid in our county, Dustin Byfuglien. He won the Stanley Cup a couple years back with the Blackhawks. Out of a class of 21 kids, he and I always had to be on opposite teams on everything because we were the most athletic. -- Garrett Hedlund

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