Whenever I won an award in the NHL, I thought of my father and the pride he would get in reading about it and having people mention it to him. — Jacques Plante Copy Share Image
All of us kids in the neighbourhood had to go shoeless for the same reason - all except the landlord's son, because his father had more income. — Jacques Plante Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You had no mask, and the coach kept telling you, 'Use your head.' And I did. — Jacques Plante Copy Share Image
