Quotes About Fighting In Hockey

#1. Force, not persuasion, not discussion, is the legitimate instrument for influencing and policing the hockey mind. Fighting in hockey is one of the most magnificent and eloquent displays of refinement in all of sports.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#2. But had they not paid that advance we would have lost much more, we would have started to go and look for the product all over again, the refinery would have stopped working.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#3. It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies.

River Phoenix

#4. I had a few fights last year, but I need to take boxing lessons. I need to, because in the NHL it's required.

Maxim Kuznetsov

#5. Fighting is necessary in hockey. But if you fight, you have to choose your partner carefully. If you're an experienced player and you want to fight, you can't choose a player who has never fought in his life.

Alexander Ovechkin

#6. 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

#7. I saw a hockey game where they threw the puck aside and just started fighting. I saw that, and I'm like, 'So I'm the thug?'

Richard Sherman

#8. One must always forgive another's passion.

Pat Conroy

#9. Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.

Frank Deford

#10. Religious traditions and selfish agenda are laid aside when we are poor in spirit

Sunday Adelaja

#11. And depression settled over the kitchen like a wet fog.

Jeanne Birdsall

#12. You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable ... they've even taken fighting out of the game, so there's no more of those big huge guys who just fight.

Brett Hull

#13. I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.

Kate Winslet

#14. What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?

Hermann Hesse

#15. The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys.

Jay Baruchel

#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. I went to the fights, and a hockey game broke out.

Steven Wright

#18. 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

#19. I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.

Zooey Deschanel

#20. The majority can never replace the man

Adolf Hitler

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them.

Wayne Gretzky

#24. High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing ... everything else is just figure skating.

Scotty Bowman

#25. The problem is never the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Think before you rush into action.

Ziad K. Abdelnour