Hockey Quotes by Jacques Plante

Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went…

— Jacques Plante

Playing goal is like being shot at.

— Jacques Plante

If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, does that make you brave? No, I think that makes you stupid. I will…

— Jacques Plante

Hockey is an art. It requires speed, precision, and strength like other sports, but it also demands an extraordinary intelligence to develop a logical…

— Jacques Plante

I am getting old, but it works in this job. I'm so slow now that I can't get out of the way of the…

— Jacques Plante

If I don't wear the mask, I'm not playing.

— Jacques Plante

The shoot-and-chase approach had become big in hockey. Teams would come up to the blue line and shoot the puck around our boards deep…

— Jacques Plante

Our four defensemen all had flaws: one couldn't skate backwards, one couldn't turn to his left, one couldn't turn to his right, and the…

— Jacques Plante

How would you like a job where, if you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

— Jacques Plante

Only a goalie can appreciate what a goalie goes through.

— Jacques Plante

You had no mask, and the coach kept telling you, 'Use your head.' And I did.

— Jacques Plante

Someday, I'm going to learn to knit with my feet.

— 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…

— Jacques Plante

“Goaltending is a normal job, sure. How would you like it in your job if every time you made a small mistake, a red…

— Jacques Plante

Whenever I won an award in the NHL, I thought of my father and the pride he would get in reading about it and…

— Jacques Plante