Scotty Bowman

“You have to have a little bit of a mean streak in you to be a winner.”

“I found that the more stressful the situation, the more I enjoyed it.”

“The two most important things in hockey are forechecking and backchecking. You've got to do both.”

“Every day is a new day. You can't live in the past.”

“A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing the right thing, at the right time.”

“I try to get them to see the big picture. It's a long season. You're going to have your ups and downs.”

“When you're a coach, you've got to have a lot of confidence in what you're doing.”

“Statistics are for losers.”

“I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.”

“I've always been a believer in the adage that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

“You learn from your mistakes. The only problem is, you don't live long enough to make them all yourself.”

“Sometimes you have to be lucky. You can't just be good.”

“I don't think you can ever be a perfect coach. I think you have to be a work in progress.”

“You can't win if you don't have good goaltending.”

“I like to see a team that's hungry. I don't like to see a team that's fat and happy.”

“Forget about style; worry about results.”

“There's nothing more valuable than experience.”

“You can't be a country club member and be a winner.”

“The players are the ones who get the credit. They're the ones who go out and do it.”

“It's not what you accomplish in life, it's what you overcome.”