Top 41 Hockey Canada Quotes
#1. Hockey historians say the handshake dates to English settlers in Canada, who preached an upper-class version of sportsmanship in the 19th century. Soon, tough kids in urban and prairie rinks began imitating imagined dukes and earls of the old country.
George Vecsey
#2. When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.
Joe Sakic
#3. Some anthems are great for sports. You've got the Russian national anthem ... 'O Canada,' how wonderful is that for hockey ... but I chose the Italian national song because at my first World Cup, I saw the Italians play four times, and they won all four times - they won the championship.
George Vecsey
#4. She's always busy, too busy, and is always reminding herself of this fact, so that the notion of an empty apartment, even an empty bed, holds no more than faint flush of alarm. And only when she thinks about it ... She'll manage, though. She knows she will.
Carol Shields
#5. Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.
Louis Dudek
#6. My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!
Norm MacDonald
#7. I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.
Adam Oates
#8. I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#10. Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#11. I never wanted to be an actor as a kid. I wanted to play hockey, like every other kid in Canada. I had a pretty good shot at it until I was 15 and badly injured myself.
Matt Frewer
#12. There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.
Mark Messier
#13. I appear to have misplaced the fucks I give for what you think.
Jay Kristoff
#14. Hockey is our big sport, and if you fight in hockey you get five minutes for it, that's it. So in Canada, everyone is fighting.
Jeremy Hotz
#15. But let me warn you again, in case your ghost ever tries to condemn me: you
Dean F. Wilson
#16. You are never so smart again in a language learned in middle age nor so romantic, brave or kind.
Garrison Keillor
#17. It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams
Don DeLillo
#18. Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless.
Salman Rushdie
#19. The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
Gary Bettman
#20. I grew up in Haifa and enjoyed the wonderful beaches and Mount Carmel that rolls into the Mediterranean Sea. From my early days at home, I remember a strong encouragement to study.
Aaron Ciechanover
#21. Cournoyer has it on that wing. Here's a shot - Henderson made a wild stab for it and fell. Here's another shot! Right in front - THEY SCORE!!! Henderson has scored for Canada!
Foster Hewitt
#22. Never mind what makes Canada's constitution so special. Probably something to do with hockey, or the inalienable right to poutine, or securing the blessings of Rick Moranis.
Kevin Bleyer
#23. Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey - let's face it, true Canadian - fan. I've always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I'm not crazy about hockey - but love it!
Dustin Milligan
#24. The results are in and the cell phone has become the most isruptive aspect of work and everyday life. With more than four fifths of the population sporting these little gadgets, it's now taken as a given that any part of your day is subject to disruption.
Jeff Davidson
#25. All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.
Charles Buxton
#26. Garbage, you know, is very revealing.It beats the shit out of tarot cards.
Armistead Maupin
#27. I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
Patrick Chan
#28. I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.
Matthew Perry
#30. Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
Pierre Trudeau
#31. An empty city was like an empty library or school, it made you feel as if the entire thing was built just for you and gave familiar landmarks an individualism that they usually lacked when surrounded by people.
Adrianne Brooks
#32. Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.
Steve Nash
#33. When you think of Canada, you think of hockey and you think of Wayne Gretzky.
Joe Sakic
#36. It's true that in Canada, we pride ourselves on the game, and we like to think we're the dominant hockey nation in the world.
Steve Yzerman
#37. In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.
Denis Villeneuve
#38. I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.
Ryan Reynolds
#39. Sources also confirm that there is no one left in Canada who can remember when hockey was a simple game, played for fun.
Roy MacGregor
#40. If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.
Malcolm Gladwell
#41. Any form of complacency is the kiss of death for any professional.
Joan Rivers
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