Top 100 Hockey's Quotes
#2. My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.
Gary Bettman
#3. Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself.
Paul Coffey
#4. In a hockey fight, barring the occasional brawl, there's actually some etiquette that goes into it. Honor, too, absolutely. Most of those guys that do it, that's their job, and they follow a certain code of conduct in doing it.
Tom Glavine
#5. My dad was a real man's man, and so were my brothers, in a small town where hockey is king. It's a masculine culture. It made me really attentive to what it meant to be a guy.
Lynn Coady
#6. Hockey should have some appeal. It's a good game in that is full of action, very quick, and it can be high-scoring.
Casey Eastham
#7. I tried to talk my daughter out of going with a hockey player but, he's a good kid. He asked me if he could marry Carrie before he asked her. I said: You want to what? I thought he was just going to ask for more ice time.
Phil Esposito
#8. But it's the temptation of so many suburban-raised children to invent tales of adversity, to create hardscrabble mythologies out of life histories marked by little more than field hockey games and orthodontist appointments.
Meghan Daum
#9. I don't mind a little blood on the ice when it's a hockey rink, but I hate seeing blood on the ice when it's from baby seals.
Pamela Anderson
#11. He's the kind of guy who will stab you in the back right to your face.
Brett Hull
#12. Not just cricket, we are doing clothing for football, hockey etc. It's basic stuff, but good designing is what I am looking to do.
Harbhajan Singh
#13. Buck is a mammoth, like a yeti. A huge perverted, hairy whore of a yeti. According to the sportscasters, Buck's an excellent hockey player. I'd agree, based on his yearly salary alone. No one gets much money for sucking, not even extremely skilled prostitutes.
Helena Hunting
#15. 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
#16. Orr is the greatest young hockey player that's come along since I've been here.
Bobby Hull
#17. I play hockey in a pickup league. I grew up playing, so it's nice to get on the ice whenever I can.
Robbie Amell
#18. Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the 1980 Olympics. Jack Nicklaus cannot shoot 65 to win the Masters at age forty-six. Nothing else comes immediately to mind.
Thomas Boswell
#19. Man is that guy ripped. I mean, I've got the washboard stomach, too. It's just that mine has about two months of laundry on top of it.
Shawn Burr
#20. Whoa," Madison whistled, craning her neck to examine the chandelier.
"This is even fancier than Red Lobster," Reagan said in awe.
"Look at this rich people's hockey-stick holder," Madison said as she ran a slightly grubby finger along the edge of the antique umbrella stand. "I want one!
Clifford Riley
#21. There's no reason why a player is done at 33, 34. They train better, they eat better, they drink better. This isn't the old days when everybody sat around and drank beer.
Bobby Clarke
#22. 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
#23. Hockey wasn't invented but discovered. The game, and the large organizing idea behind Stephen Smith's deeply personal 'Puckstruck,' sleeps in ponds and in the crooked limbs of trees overhead; we merely pluck a stick from the sky and skate over the frozen world to find ourselves and each other.
Michael Winter
#24. Hullie's a lot like a garbage can. You step on the pedal with your foot and the top opens up.
Wayne Gretzky
#25. Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.
Joan Cusack
#26. It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.
Sidney Crosby
#27. A lot of my friends growing up were hunters, but I spent all my time on the ice hurting actual humans playing hockey. I never had the chance to run through the woods and shoot at a moose or deer. I was shooting pucks at goaltender's heads.
Kevin Durand
#28. Love can't be found in a rule book. It's found in your heart.
Aven Ellis
#29. It's not only hockey, it's every sport. You know, it's a big event.
Peter Forsberg
#30. Hockey is its own game. It's completely different than all the other games, although it's getting way too close to soccer.
Brett Hull
#31. Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.
Bill Goldberg
#32. In the U.S., coaches could be the father next door. They had no formal training. They're like old hockey players. They don't go to school and study.
Gabe Polsky
#33. My dad was so influential in my career. It was a fulfillment of every athlete's dream. I dreamed about it as a kid. We played hockey in the backyard. We had silver buckets we carried around like the Stanley Cup. It was everything that you would hope.
Matt Cullen
#34. 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
#35. The NHL's opinion of itself is so high ... Let them get drunk on their greatness. We'll see how many Euros look our way.
Alexander Medvedev
#36. I wear whatever makes me comfortable on stage, so that I feel confident. Some days it's a plaid skirt with a button-up and other days it's jeans with a hockey jersey and platforms.
Sky Ferreira
#37. My wife likes the hockey smell because it's the smell of a warrior.
David Walton
#38. Tomorrow, America's most famous hockey mom, Sarah Palin, will drop the ceremonial first puck at the Philadelphia Flyers game. Right afterwards, she'll get out on the ice and skate around reporters' questions, so it should be interesting.
Jay Leno
#39. At the end of each year I make a list of my mistakes and it's pretty friggin long.
Dean Lombardi
#40. We talk about mental toughness all the time. That's the biggest thing good teams have, that they can overcome adversity.
Bryan Murray
#41. I have six brothers and one sister, and I was an ice hockey player when I was younger. I think my dad thought I was going to be in the women's league for ice hockey. But, I totally fell in love with drama in grade school, and I asked my mom if I could get involved with it.
Nicola Peltz
#42. 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
#43. Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.
Thierry Henry
#44. It's definitely an honour and a dream to be able to go out there and have all the people in the stands cheering for you it's a great feeling and I cant wait to get the Olympics started.
Meghan Agosta-Marciano
#45. We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff.'
Michael Morpurgo
#46. I am who I am. Life is too beautiful to be sad, to be depressed. The sun comes up every day and it's beautiful.
Ilya Bryzgalov
#47. It's a great feeling, its something that I've dreamt about since I was little, and it's finally come true. It couldn't be better. Well I think that we stuck to the game plan. We got shots on net, and just used our power.
Rebecca Johnston
#48. Playoff hockey is the best way to market your team. It's the best way to grow your fan base and give hope to your players and for them to develop.
Steve Yzerman
#49. The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven't been skating as a kid it's impossible to play - and I wasn't a skater.
Liev Schreiber
#50. In fact, in Parliament, I pointed out that Australians on average incomes would move into the second highest tax bracket in the next couple of years. That is going to slow down the Australian economy. It's bad for households.
Joe Hockey
#51. That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my (expletive) clothes.
Stu Grimson
#52. I was playing a relatively high level of hockey, and I thought that's what I wanted to do. But I had my first movie audition, and I was hooked.
Robbie Amell
#53. I always said put me in front of 40 or 50,000 people and play hockey, I'm comfortable there. Put me in front of 50 people to talk or get in front of, and that's where I'm probably the least comfortable.
Ron Francis
#54. I'm so busy right now, it's the beginning of the hockey season for my kids.
Curtis Joseph
#55. 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
#56. There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed.
Angela Ruggiero
#57. When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL. Now it's kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can't be a good coach because I was a great athlete.
Wayne Gretzky
#58. Hopefully I can be a good light in the hockey world and promote faith as something that's really real.
Mike Fisher
#59. It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.
Peter Forsberg
#60. There are certain things about my game I don't want to change, but I think it's about time that I realized I can't fight every battle. Three hundred minutes in penalties is way too many. Way too many.
Rick Tocchet
#61. It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.
Jimmy Connors
#62. My hockey is good, but my ice skating is terrible. It's a bit of a mess to watch!
Margot Robbie
#63. I think part of what people are responding to with Lambeau Field is that it's a solid culture. There's so much committed to what hockey means and that's how we feel about football. It's just a great connection between the culture of football and the culture of hockey.
Jon Jones
#64. It's incredible, they're [the medals] beautiful and as soon as they put them around your neck, it's pretty amazing. Shannon played outstandingly well. She was so calm, composed and she was just moving so well.
Jennifer Botterill
#65. One thing about this game: It's really frustrating. In hockey, if you team's losing, you can start a fight. You can get your frustrations out.
Eric Gagne
#66. When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. That's just the way it was.
Teemu Selanne
#67. Anything coach Babcock needs me to do, I'll do it and if it's face-off well, I'm willing and ready to do that obviously.
Patrice Bergeron
#68. I just want to comment on how It's become a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in Love with my sloppy seconds
Sean Avery
#69. And let's face it, the French Army couldn't beat a girls hockey team
Bill Bryson
#70. I don't think we've met," he said in all seriousness, and her body's reaction to that voice confirmed his lie. Her body knew that voice like a snake knew its charmer.
Kate Meader
#71. Hockey is not a sport - it's a disease.
Chico Resch
#72. That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
Patrick Kane
#73. Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.
Phil Jackson
#74. It's cool that I'm 20 and am on the cover of the video game. A lot of kids play hockey, and a few get drafted, and only a few get to be on the cover. It's a great feeling.
Patrick Kane
#76. I've always had a passion for hockey, ... That's the key. You can't be putting in time. You have to enjoy doing what you do.
Sidney Crosby
#77. 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
#78. If Peter has learned one thing about human nature during all his years in hockey, it's that almost everyone regards themselves as a good team player, but that very few indeed understand what that really means.
Fredrik Backman
#79. People think common sense is common - but it's not.
Don Cherry
#80. Play every game as if it's your last one
Guy Lafleur
#81. I graduated early from high school, but up until I graduated, I was playing high school hockey. I really enjoy hockey. That's definitely what I do on my days off, for sure.
Sterling Beaumon
#82. When I try to relax, it's more Swedish rock, softer music, and I go out and do fun stuff. I play guitar, but it doesn't matter really what it is - just something that keeps you away from hockey.
Henrik Lundqvist
#83. I try to get to the gym at least a few times a week, hopefully more. I also play hockey in a pickup league. I grew up playing, so it's nice to get on the ice whenever I can. With all that said, everyone should have cheat days or days off. You need to balance the unhealthy with the healthy.
Robbie Amell
#84. Tragedy, after all, is the invisible hand that spawns reflection, and reflection bears its fruit in the deepening of one's character.
Richard Harris
#85. I have six brothers and one sister. I grew up playing ice hockey, a total tomboy, and that's what I thought I was going to do - be an ice-hockey player.
Nicola Peltz
#86. L.A. will never be a hockey town. I'm a huge hockey fan, and people out here do not appreciate hockey as much as they should. I've always been into it. I'm Canadian; that's my sport for sure.
Jean-Luc Bilodeau
#87. 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
#88. I just heard George W. Bush's new plan for airline security. From here on out, every plane will now have its own hockey dad.
David Letterman
#89. To a reporter after Ray was pounded by Edmonton's Georges Laraque: What are you, the fight doctor now or something? You've never been in a fight in your life, so what are you talking about?
Rob Ray
#90. 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
#91. It's the nuts and bolts time of the year and we don't have enough nuts and bolts.
Darryl Sutter
#92. I've always loved sports and hockey is a sport I play as much as I can. I love it. In a weird way it's like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one. I mean when I play hockey I don't think about anything.
Michael Vartan
#93. When he gets mad, it's like he's in another world. He'll look at you with those big eyes and they'll be going around in circles.
Barry Beck
#94. Back in the NBA's pre-mask era, ballers with busted noses or orbital bones had two unappealing options: Sit out and heal, or strap on a Michael Myers-looking opaque face shield closely related to that worn by hockey goalies.
Brendan I. Koerner
#95. Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.
Brett Hull
#96. I've always felt we weren't physical enough on the back line. Now there's a no - parking sign in front of our net.
Dean Lombardi
#97. What's a little tonsil hockey between friends?
Megan Bailey
#98. Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying.
Brendan Morrison
#99. I don't want to get into being too hockey centered, but I just felt like the late 70's and 80's into the 90's was the right time period to tell the story.
Gabe Polsky
#100. In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There's a lot of great individual talent.
Kobe Bryant
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