Jaromir Jagr Quotes (138 Quotes)

Everybody says your health is the most important thing, and he's a perfect example. If he would have been healthy, he would break a lot of records. Maybe not all of them, but I'm pretty sure a lot of them. He was the best player I've ever seen. He was the most gifted at everything - size, strength, skill, how smart he was. There is no other player like him.

Bad discipline, bad penalties, they killed us.

It was the kind of game that was played in the neutral zone rather than on net. Neither team had a lot of chances. They had a lot of guys back, especially against our line. We really played to their strength.

If they let me shoot, they let me shoot. That's fine with me, ... They covered everybody else. I'll take it any time.

You can't win with one goal. That's the bottom line. The way we played was not good.

We played against very good teams, playoff teams for sure, maybe candidates to win the Stanley Cup. They're already playing playoff hockey and I don't think we're playing it yet. The two games teach us we are not there yet. We have to play smarter.

To me, it doesn't matter if I have a 'C' or not. If the team is going to do good, I'm going to get a bigger reward than other guys on the team. But if the team's going to do bad, I'm going to be blamed Everyone leads differently. There's not going to be another Mark Messier. I had the 'C' in Pittsburgh for five years and I had no problem with that. But it's kind of different now.

Of course it will be a different game because we didn't play in such a long time. It's a different game on the smaller ice. The first period it will be difficult to try and get our timing. After that, it should be fine.

We needed to win an ugly game.

He was my idol since I was 15-years old. I had a chance to see him every day and learn a lot from him. Like my first goal today, I learned that from Mario. He scored a lot of them like that.

It's a big satisfaction. Look at all the great players here in the past 80 years.

I've been playing with Marty for a long time. He knows where I'm going to be and I know where to look for him.

There was so many good players in one place, ... Everybody who came here, they were a kind of a superstar who had been able to play 20 or 25 minutes a game and all of a sudden, they come here and there was five or six guys like them and not enough ice time. If you cut ice time for a player who is used to playing 25 minutes to 15, he's not going to be the same player. I think it hurts a team.

I thought we were going to win. Some calls were tough against us, some calls were fair. We had a 2-0 lead, we should have been able to win the hockey game.

Its tough to be down (in the series), I can't really describe how it feels. We are almost done and we are unable to score any goals.

When you're down two goals to Ottawa, it's different than down two goals to the Islanders. I respect every team in the NHL. But I think there's a difference between the Islanders and Ottawa right now.

I did what I had to do. Play as hard as I can until the last minute. I knew we weren't going to win the hockey game ... It might be a long series. Every shift can mean a lot later on.

When I play games I don't really care. Everyone is replaceable. I just tried to help the team.

Russia has got to be the team to beat, in my opinion. When they are playing together as a team, they are tough to beat.

It's not good for us and it's not going to get better until we win. I'm hoping it's not too late to stop it. I thought we had a big chance today and we didn't do it.

We had a lot of chances. Sometimes it might look easy like tonight and other times it's really tough. That's just hockey.

I might be more excited than I was before the Olympics. Our goal is to make the playoffs, but we don't want to just make the playoffs for the first round and go home. I want to be in the best condition I've ever been in my life, to know when a crucial time comes, I'm ready.

We have to keep the next game close. We have to be able to score and not make any mistakes. We have to try to get one win and then you never know. Anything is possible. We have nothing to lose. We are almost dead.

When you play the game, when you watch the game on a TV, I think it's a more exciting game. It's more skating, up-and-down hockey. For offensive players, you can get more scoring chances and shots. Plus, the offensive zone is a lot bigger and it is better on power plays.

It wasn't a good shot. I thought someone was coming up behind me and rushed it. I'd like to have that one back.

It was great for the New York fans and all the hockey fans. If you're a player like Mark and play so many years in the NHL and did so much for hockey he truly deserved it. He brought the Cup here to New York in 1994 and the people love him, so he deserved it.

It's an honor. And hopefully I'm going to score a lot more. I don't want to stop at 50.

I'm taking the blame. Our line should score more, that's for sure. When we were winning we were able to score two, three goals a game. Our line has to find a way. When you take those two goals away, you're losing by a goal.

I got hit, it's swollen. I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. I have to talk to the doctors first. We have the whole day tomorrow to figure out something. I'll do anything to play, you can bet on it.

Well it doesn't matter how I feel. Sometimes it's a matter of luck. Sometimes you have so many chances and you can't score and other times you feel like every shot is going to go in. That's the way I have felt the last couple games.

I said I didn't touch it and it wasn't my goal. Can you imagine if they would give it to me and after the game you guys would ask me the stupid questions over and over and over forever

My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.

When they're calling everything, you have to be smarter. It seems like every time we lose, it's because we've screwed up and we make stupid plays.

I thought when we were down 1-0, we had an opportunity on the power play. We had an empty net and missed it. That was probably the biggest chance we had in the game. We have to be able to score on those chances.

It's a big honor for me. I'm glad I did it in the first period. ... We need the points. We want to stay in first in the division.

Jaromir Jagr, from the Czech Republic, said that beyond the team-building, he had a better understanding of a soldier's life. It was tough, ... One thing you learn These guys are fighting for their lives. Hockey is nothing compared to that.

I cannot hide behind the bench and wait for somebody else. I'm the highest-paid guy on the team. Who else is going to do it That's my job. If I cannot do it, there's no reason to be here. I have to score goals for this team to win.

I finished the game, I'm OK. I knew I was not going to be a big factor. I was hoping they'd play the checking line against us. It still didn't work.

The team decided after one month after I came here they were going to sell everybody. After the trade deadline, there were only two players left on the team from when I came here.

Right now, ... there's a chance for everybody else and I don't think it's going to hurt us. I don't think it's a rebuilding, no way. I think we have a chance like everyone else does. There's no doubt in my mind we're going to make the playoffs.

I feel like our power play was doing the job. We scored a lot of goals on the power play.

I saw a lot of pictures but I don't understand it.

Monday night, we weren't thinking. Tonight, the two goals they scored were not because of mental breakdowns. They were goals that just happened.

Somehow we have to score goals. We aren't able to score goals. Any mistake we made, they scored. We gave them two odd man rushes, and they scored on both of them.

I just wanted to help him. He doesn't make that much money. I can help.

Of course it's a big honor. The Rangers are an original six team. A lot of great players played hear -- Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier -- a lot of great players. It's a big honor to me.

We didn't do it yet and it's too early to celebrate. We have to make sure we get in the playoffs first and take care of other business later.

Maybe if we would have anybody good on the power play that was right-handed, he wouldn't get a chance to play there. It's about opportunity.

Maybe it would be better not to risk (injury), but I'm not going to question what I did. I'm going to do everything I can to be back to help. If I can't, it's over. But I believe we can (win the series).

He's been the best goalie in the league for such a long time, for the last 10 years maybe. Plus, he looks like he even gets better as the games get tougher. We have to shoot the puck and hope for the best, hope that he's going to have a bad game. We just have to hope.