Hockey Goal Sayings

#1. To live; to love; to learn; and to leave a legacy.

Stephen Covey

#2. Playing goal is like being shot at.

Jacques Plante

#3. The goal is too small and the goalies are too big.

Scotty Bowman

#4. A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A good mathematician eventually does so - and proves a theorem.

Steven G. Krantz

#5. As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

Cokie Roberts

#6. My opinion is there should NOT be an MVP award [in hockey]. The Olympic teams sports shouldn't acknowledge individuality. And if there is going to be such an award a player on the losing team who lets in the losing goal shouldn't get it.

Michael Wilbon

#7. Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

Bobby Orr

#8. Goaltending is a suffering position. Your equipment protects you from injury, but not from pain, every time you go out there. And if you allow a goal, the red lights go on for everyone to see. But you get to be a hero too!

Kevin Constantine

#9. To know, you just have to know. To believe, you have to make others believe.

James Richardson

#10. I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I'm hungry I can just bend over and sweep a cookie into my mouth like I'm scoring a goal in hockey.

Jack Gantos

#11. Every spring, this happens: People discover hockey when daylight lasts longer and men grow beards and tie games do not end in shootouts but rather continue until a goal is scored. The seventh game only heightens the mood for players and fans alike.

George Vecsey

#12. Football has end zones and goal posts; basketball has the hoop, and hockey the goal cage. Baseball is the only game with an imaginary box: the strike zone, which the umpire determines at his own discretion.

Richard Corliss

#13. Fiction inhabits the zone between the real and the impossible. The tug of those two poles is what gives it motion, vitality. Tethering fiction too tightly to the real produces plodding, lifeless stories. Letting it float too far from that anchor produces stories that are arbitrary and unpersuasive.

Vinnie Tesla

#14. Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention ... But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.

William James

#15. I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.

Wayne Gretzky

#16. On rookie Alex Selivanov, Yes the guy can score you 40 goals. Yes I love it. What I don't want is him causing 60.

Terry Crisp

#17. My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.

Jaromir Jagr

#18. Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher.

Herb Brooks

#19. When Bobby came into the league he was a rushing defenseman, a goal scorer and a point getter. He just opened the game up to more offence and that's the way the game is played now.

Johnny Bucyk

#20. Goals live on the other side of obstacles and challenges. Be relentless in pursuit of those goals, especially in the face of obstacles. Along the way, make no excuses and place no blame.

Ray Bourque

#21. And i'm certain, i'm so suddenly certain that everything is exactly the way it's supposed to be, that I don't have to be afraid of good-bye; because good-bye doesn't have to be forever.

Jenny Han

#22. Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#23. I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

Anthony Trollope

#24. I know you define leads by goals having the lead, but we never really had the lead.

Darryl Sutter

#25. Those Aussie rugby fans are a bunch of sore losers. I hate 'em all.

Jonny Wilkinson

#26. It is pretty tough for a goalie when you look at it. You're always the last line of defense. If you let a goal in, you can't go to the bench and hide between the guys or anything

Kirk McLean