Montreal Quotes: Inspiring Words from the Heart of the City

"Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends"

Nadia Comaneci, Athlete

"And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation"

Kim Campbell, Statesman

"I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof"

Allan Carr, Director

"I think over there in Montreal they're a bit hardcore with the old homos. They're not that keen on them"

Allan Carr, Director

"No, I love Montreal... I think I love Montreal more than Montreal loves me... I love the food there"

Kathy Griffin, Comedian

"I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one"

Christopher Plummer, Actor

"They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there"

Mike Schmidt, Athlete

"I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it"

Todd Barry, Comedian

"I felt (a) it was a great role and (b) I wanted to stay in town. I wanted to stop going to these four month and five month gigs up in Toronto or Montreal or Vancouver or down in Mexico. I wanted to be around my son, Max. This came along and I was like, "I really want to play this guy!""

John C. McGinley, Actor

"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents"

Rudolph A. Marcus, Scientist

"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants"

Sidney Altman, Scientist

"I would compare that to when I first started with the Montreal Canadiens; it was a big family then, where the guys really stuck together and worked like a unit. But when I came back in '88, it was not like that anymore"

Guy Lafleur, Athlete