Success Quote by Peter Bondra

There is a blunt kind of relief in Peter Bondra boiling an entire career down to one unromantic sentence: "My job is to score goals". It’s the sound of an athlete refusing to play every role fans, coaches, and media keep trying to staple onto him. In hockey culture, where you’re expected to talk about “doing the little things,” “playing the right way,” and “contributing in all zones,” Bondra’s line lands like a clean wrist shot: direct, unapologetic, almost defiant.

The intent is practical and protective. A pure goal-scorer lives under constant bargaining. If he isn’t scoring, he’s told to hit more, backcheck harder, lead louder, sacrifice differently. If he is scoring, the conversation pivots to whether he’s “complete.” By naming the job in the narrowest terms, Bondra draws a boundary around value: judge me by the one output you actually pay me for.

The subtext is also about specialization in a sport that romanticizes selflessness. Goal-scoring is both the most visible currency and the most fickle; it depends on timing, confidence, and teammates as much as individual talent. Saying this out loud is a way to reclaim agency over a volatile metric, to frame slumps as occupational droughts rather than moral failures.

Context matters: Bondra was an elite finisher in an era that often punished creativity with clutching and grabbing. The quote reads like a veteran’s refusal to apologize for having one extraordinary skill and building a career around it.