Great Hockey Player Quotes

#1. One of the key qualities that you need to be a great hockey player is fantastic anticipation and feel for the game - if you know where the puck is going before it is hit, that is half the battle.

Wayne Gretzky

#2. A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Wayne Gretzky

#3. Luc Robitaille is a great kid and good player, but ask anybody on the street and they'd probably think Luc Robitaille is a type of salad dressing.

Bruce McNall

#4. The great thing about hockey players is that they are able to separate the on-ice from the off-ice and not let the latter distract them.

Stu Grimson

#5. When you take off that sweater, your jersey, after today's game, you will be the last player in the NHL to ever wear 99. You have always been and you will always be 'The Great One,' and there will never be another.

Gary Bettman

#6. To the voters in 1960, the name Nikita Khrushchev carried great emotional significance. To these students, he sounded like just another hockey player.

Leonard Mlodinow

#7. We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

Bobby Knight