Al Montoya Quotes

You can tell everyone's playing for a spot. - Al Montoya

Winning the gold medal at the World Juniors was an unbelievable experience. We had great leadership, we performed well and came home with the gold. It was awesome. - Al Montoya

Whenever you pull on the red, white and blue, it's a great feeling. - Al Montoya

We have to get back to winning consistently, and it starts with everyone doing it right. [Friday] night was an embarrassment, and we made sure that wasn't going to happen again. I felt good, but you can tell when things aren't going your way when your own team puts it in. But you just have to battle through and eventually it will work out. I just want to keep giving the team a chance to win. - Al Montoya

This is the right time to be in this organization. - Al Montoya

They were awful, still are. - Al Montoya

It's a wonderful feeling... I always wanted to put on this jersey. I guess it really started when I loved to watch the USA Hockey team play and being a goalie I really loved to watch Mike Richter. When the Olympics came around, it was Mike Richter time. Then I started loving the Rangers. The city has great fans. It's always been a dream of mine to play in Madison Square garden. Hopefully, it will happen one day. - Al Montoya

It was the basic story of having to leave it all behind... My grandfather was a lawyer and landowner who had it all, and when he came [to America] he was selling strawberries. - Al Montoya

It has been an all right year in which I definitely improved and had to face a lot of adversity, which is part of being a pro and how you react. I feel I've dealt with them fairly well when I had the chance to go out there and felt good. I think I made a difference and gave the team a chance to win, and hopefully that story is not ending too soon. Now it's all about getting momentum early, especially in our own building. - Al Montoya

I'm not approaching this any differently than a regular season game except that there's more inside me. There is that itch to play my first pro playoff game. Everything this team and I have done is going to come down to the playoffs, so there's a little more incentive. - Al Montoya

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