When you're a young kid and you come into the NHL, you're given money and fame, to an extent, especially in Boston.

More Quotes by Brad Marchand

Maybe playing around and having fun is considered being a rat... I guess I'm a rat.

Practice makes perfect and if you practice battling and competing and working hard, then that will transfer over in a game. If you practice just kind of floating around out there in practice, you know that's going to transfer over, too. So I think the harder you work and the more you compete, then that's how you're going to play in a game.

My dad was a big grinder, a tough guy. I inherited that from him.

I'm not a big poker guy, I like to play shnarps.

Boston has become my second home. I absolutely love it there.

There are great players who go unnoticed because they're not on the best teams.