End Of Hockey Season Quotes

#1. Man is a robot with defects.

Emile M. Cioran

#2. There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.

Keith Allen

#3. For good reasons, there are no ties during the Stanley Cup season. Somebody needs to win so the lads can get out to their cottages on the lakes, where all hockey players spend their summers, or so I have been told.

George Vecsey

#4. Still, even after the black winger John Barnes scored his solo goal to beat Brazil in Rio in 1984, the Football Association's chairman was harangued by England fans on the flight back home: "You fucking wanker, you prefer sambos to us.

Simon Kuper

#5. Some of the happiest moments of my life have occurred just before I fall asleep or wake up, when I linger in that twilight world between consciousness and unconsciousness, in a state of somnolent repose but also savoring the vital goodness of remaining this close to the vegetative in myself

Irving Singer

#6. That Canadian team had a bunch of guys who are in the 1 percent: Crosby, Getzlaf, Perry, Carter, Richards and Weber - guys who would win Olympic gold and make $8 and $10 million a season down the line. Though a player might be in that 1 percent, no team is, not as a group.

Patrick O'Sullivan

#7. Even though I'm a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.

Bono

#8. It is only, she thought, that I thought you brought my bear, and life lit up for a moment. And now it is returned to its usual dimness, which truly I had thought was bright enough for me.

Margo Lanagan

#9. Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.

Michael Wilbon

#10. So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature.

Jorge Luis Borges

#11. Some guys are more worried about their Vegas trip at the end of the season than playing the games, than playing every minute of the games. Quite frankly, I don't care about your Vegas trip right now.

Jean-Sebastien Giguere

#12. You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.

Joe Sakic

#13. G. I. Gurdieff, "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson"
So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be.
Mullah's favorite saying. p. 598

Gurdieff

#14. I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.

Wayne Gretzky

#15. I went from junior hockey to the World Junior Championships to the combine and the draft, to the Blackhawks camp, and then a full NHL season and then the World Championships. At nineteen, that's exhausting.

Patrick Kane

#16. I did not sign up for this. She tried to fist me ... and it was someplace I don't even have any holes!

Rhys Ford

#17. Why are you so nervous?" Tate looked up to see Lucas giving him a dirty look. "This is easier that the regular season, we go out and have fun."
"No, you get to have fun, I need t be super ninja goalie against every great forward in the league.

Toni Aleo

#18. she'd grown accustomed to the idea that she was sleeping with a galactic version of Indiana Jones. All he's missing is a cool hat and perhaps a few more brain cells than his onboard medical scanner realizes.

Eve Langlais

#19. Most people hate to say no - but not nearly as much as other people hate to hear it.

Dianna Daniels Booher

#20. Before, baseball was something to do to get ready for the hockey season. Now, people look to play baseball, period. It's something you stick with.

Jason Bay

#21. I'm so busy right now, it's the beginning of the hockey season for my kids.

Curtis Joseph

#22. The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom.

Nick Bakay

#23. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Chogyam Trungpa

#24. Those who fail to think, will shrink, sink and stink.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#25. I think we've been through a lot this season and it will be nice to move on. It's one step at a time though. The focus of our hockey club was great. We really stuck to our game plan and didn't get too high or too low and we definitely didn't get over excited.

Martin Brodeur