Jacques Plante

“How would you like it if, at your job, every time you made the slightest mistake a little red light went on over your head and 18,000 people booed?”

“Only a goalie can appreciate what a goalie goes through.”

“They say you have to be a little nuts to be a goalie, but I don't think that's true... I think you have to be a lot nuts.”

“You don't have to be crazy to be a goalie, but it helps.”

“I am not afraid of the puck. I am afraid of not stopping it.”

“When you are a goalie, you're on an island. If you make a mistake, it's a goal.”

“My job is to stop pucks, that's it.”

“The mask is a protection for the goalie, but it's also a part of his uniform, a part of his personality.”

“I had three jobs in my life: I was a knitter in a factory, a goalie, and I was a salesman. The best one was being a goalie.”

“Playing goal is not fun. It's a job.”