Hockey Winning Sayings

#1. Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.

Brett Hull

#2. We're scared of losing. That's why we win. We know what it's like to lose and we hate it. We enjoy being champions too much.

Bob Bourne

#3. The number one reason that we don't get our needs met, we don't express them. We express judgments. If we do express needs, the number two reasons we don't our needs met, we don't make clear requests.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#4. Oh, the rare old Whale, mid storm and gale In his ocean home will be A giant in might, where might is right And King of the boundless sea - Whale Song

Robert Muldoon

#5. Writers feel that they can't afford to wait. They must do it now, and they are so clever, and there is so much competition. I'm quite happy to wait, and quite confident that the muses will cross the stream.

Robert Dessaix

#6. Winning is always fun, but the car is more important.

Teemu Selanne

#7. It's too easy when you're not winning to look for excuses and point at others for reasons. You ca say 'Oh well, it's this guys fault or they don't do this well', or you can say 'I've got to play better and contribute more'. You've got to find another gear and come up with big games.

Sean Burke

#8. Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.

Mario Lemieux

#9. A zoo is a cultural institution. Like a public library, like a museum, it is at the service of popular education and science. And by that token, not much of a money-making venture for the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims.

Yann Martel

#10. To continue down the path of comprehensiveness, Wikipedia will need to sustain the astonishing mass fervor of its birth years. Will that be possible? No one knows.

James Gleick

#11. A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.

Arthur Bloch

#12. If I'm playing hockey, I want to win all the (trophies) I can.

Alexander Ovechkin

#13. She turned towards me and narrowed her eyes ... narrowed them horizontally, not vertically.

Hugh Laurie

#14. Love hinders death. Love is life. Anything at all that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is - everything exists - only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

#15. If you play to win as I do, the game never ends.

Stan Mikita

#16. It's not who wins the fight that's important, it's being willing to fight. If you get challenged and renege, everyone wants to take a shot at you.

Barclay Plager

#17. The last day is way shorter than counting to ten.

Leena Ahmad Almashat

#18. You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone.

Herb Brooks

#19. Put the kids in with a few old pappy guys who still like to win and the combination is unbeatable.

Conn Smythe

#20. In times of crisis, cash is king.

Ricardo Salinas Pliego

#21. I'm probably the only guy in hockey who can win a scoring title and everybody is saying I had a bad year. I don't worry about it.

Wayne Gretzky

#22. Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Eric Hoffer

#23. Nobody wanted to win more than I did. Nobody !

Eddie Giacomin

#24. Don't ever let others impose their self-limiting beliefs on to you. They don't have the courage and spirit that you do.

Miya Yamanouchi

#25. At the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals: Win today and we walk together forever.

Fred Shero

#26. I don't think you can really expect to win a hockey game giving up three power-play goals. In reality, you cant give up those and that's the difference in the hockey game.

Randy Carlyle

#27. I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie.

Chris Osgood

#28. People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.

Marcel Dionne

#29. As Halloran parachuted over Tokyo, the Zero that had shot him down sped toward him, and Halloran was certain that he was going to be strafed, as so many falling airmen were. But instead of firing, the pilot saluted him. After the war, Halloran and that pilot, Isamu Kashiide, became dear friends.

Laura Hillenbrand

#30. People here want the team to win and to do well. The thing is, we know when to shoot the puck.

Steve Yzerman

#31. I'm going to go traveling through Europe and see parts of the world I haven't seen. I've spent so much time in America that I want to check out the rest of the world.

Nicky Whelan

#32. When you stand on the victory stand, you must be able to ask yourself: 'Did I win this medal?'

Kipchoge Keino