--- title: "2 Patrick Marleau Quotes - Famous Ice hockey player (Comment j'ai survécu à mon adolescence)" description: "Patrick Denis Marleau is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. With 1,779 NHL games played, he is the all-time leader in regular season gam..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-patrick-marleau-73645.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Patrick Marleau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-patrick-marleau-73645.jpg) # Patrick Marleau (1979) Ice Hockey Player **2** quotes in **12** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Patrick Marleau is an ice hockey player, best known for *Comment j'ai survécu à mon adolescence*. ## Quick Facts About Patrick Marleau Born September 15, 1979 Profession Ice Hockey Player Notable works Comment j'ai survécu à mon adolescence ## About Patrick Marleau Patrick Denis Marleau is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. With 1,779 NHL games played, he is the all-time leader in regular season games played in league history. He passed the record previously held by Gordie Howe in his 1,768th game on April 19, 2021. Marleau scored 1,197 points during his entire NHL career. The San Jose Sharks drafted Marleau second overall in the 1997 NHL entry draft, and Marleau spent the vast majority of his NHL career with the franchise, becoming its all-time leader in goals, even strength goals, power play goals, points, shots, and games played. Marleau is also the fourth player in National Hockey League history to record 900 consecutive games played, reaching the mark one game after breaking the overall games played record. He was the third-last active player who played in the NHL in the 1990s, with the others being Zdeno Chára and longtime teammate Joe Thornton. ## Quotes by Patrick Marleau > [Games in hand are a good thing only if you win them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-marleau/games-in-hand-are-a-good-thing-only-if-you-win-them/) [Patrick Marleau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-marleau/) [Football](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/football/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/070/patrick-marleau-93447_football_games-in-hand-are-a-good-thing-only-if-y_332982.jpg) > [I can't control what people say or anything like that. I have to focus on what I can control and that's what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-marleau/i-can-t-control-what-people-say-or-anything-like-that-i-have-to-focus/) [Patrick Marleau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-marleau/) [Control](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/control/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa7/patrick-marleau-93447_control_i-can-t-control-what-people-say-or-anyth_2548390.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-marleau/#itemlist", "name": "Patrick Marleau Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Games in hand are a good thing only if you win them.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Patrick Marleau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-marleau/games-in-hand-are-a-good-thing-only-if-you-win-them/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/070/patrick-marleau-93447_football_games-in-hand-are-a-good-thing-only-if-y_332982.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/070/patrick-marleau-93447_football_games-in-hand-are-a-good-thing-only-if-y_332982.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/070/patrick-marleau-93447_football_games-in-hand-are-a-good-thing-only-if-y_332982.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Games in hand are a good thing only if you win them.” — Patrick Marleau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I can't control what people say or anything like that. 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