Quotes About Hockey Games

#1. The worst part about the job is the travel, which takes you away from family and friends and important dates and hockey games and tournaments that your kids are in and things like that.

Joe Bowen

#2. People who wave digital cameras at shows are the same people who sit in front of you at hockey games and wear those giant foam-rubber fingers that say, We're number one!'

Rob Sheffield

#3. If you're dating the quarterback and then you go out with the hockey player, you just go to the hockey games. I don't think I'll still go to the football games.

Nicolle Wallace

#4. 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

#5. My favorite personal hockey moment was probably when Mike Bossy scored fifty goals in fifty games. He was the first one to do it since Rocket Richard. I was young when it happened, but I remember it very distinctly.

Kevin Connolly

#6. It's a good start. Seems like all the lines have chemistry right now. It's tough to tell after one game, but with only one practice all the guys looked like the flowed pretty good out there after the first period.

Joe Thornton

#7. This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.

Lester B. Pearson

#8. I am 10 times smarter than everyone else in this game. Beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Brett Hull

#9. Bettman is an asshole. A frikkin asshole. I think he's ruined the game of hockey. He's supposed to be impartial. He's supposed to speak for the good of the league, but in my opinion, he's strictly behind the owners. Those 1996 rule changes are a joke

Bob Probert

#10. I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.

Steve Nash

#11. It's a big game tomorrow, obviously, quarter finals. I think that whenever you play the Russians you always get up for it, and tomorrow is going to be even that much bigger, the quarter finals.

Michael Richards

#12. Some guys are more worried about their Vegas trip at the end of the season than playing the games, than playing every minute of the games. Quite frankly, I don't care about your Vegas trip right now.

Jean-Sebastien Giguere

#13. 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

#14. People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles.

Wayne Gretzky

#15. We all bring some different elements at the Games. Everything is a stepping stone for us after playing these two games. These Games are preparing us to play a 60-minutes game and preparing us for the gold-medal game.

Cherie Piper

#16. We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games.

Fred Shero

#17. It was important that we kept moving the puck and moving forward as a team. It is good that we practiced today. The rivalry we have against Sweden is very intense. We have had some very physical games against Sweden and we are looking forward to them. We know what to expect.

Caroline Ouellette

#18. It's going to be intense. This is what we played the whole tournament for, we had to play an extra game but I think that's a good thing, we got some line combinations working together fairly well now.

Corey Perry

#19. I know my players don't like my practices, but that's OK because I don't like their games.

Harry Neale

#20. The day they put me in net I had a good game. I've stayed there ever since.

Terry Sawchuk

#21. I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk. It must be working, because we haven't lost a game yet.

Tom McVie

#22. It's only game. Why you have to be mad?

Ilya Bryzgalov

#23. These are tough games to play. We shared the puck and we wanted everyone to get a chance to score. Tough games to play in. We want close games. That is why we train so hard. We want to show our fans some even games.

Caroline Ouellette

#24. When you lose the shootout, you feel like you lost the hockey game, ... But we didn't lose the hockey game. We lost a point and they gained a point. That's the reality of it.

Randy Carlyle

#25. That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would play slow motion tackle football. We would play hockey, but we wouldn't skate. We just made things up. I loved doing that.

Mike Krzyzewski

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. My parents, especially my dad, had a big influence on my hockey career. He introduced me to the game when I was younger, and I stuck with it.

Steven Stamkos

#29. We continue to see more and more of that - games we didn't necessarily know would work in VR until a developer goes in and discovers the game mechanic that makes it come together. Sure enough, hockey can be a great VR experience.

Brendan Iribe

#30. Overall I can fairly safely say Bobby Orr impressed me more than anybody with his tremendous talents. In Bobby's first N.H.L. game he layed the lumber to Gordie's head. Later Howe retalliated and wanted to let the kid know he wasn't washed up yet.

Gordie Howe

#31. Women are playing [hockey] because they love it, not because they're trying to be a woman in a man's game.

Cammi Granato

#32. By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series.

Steve Rushin

#33. Hockey is a tough game. With all the talk and everything that's going on right now, it frightens me a little bit that we are giving our players an excuse not to hit. I just hope that we don't take that out of our game at the pro level.

Bobby Orr

#34. There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.

Keith Allen

#35. Hockey would be a great game ... if played in the mud.

Jimmy Cannon

#36. I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching.

Patrick Roy

#37. That hockey game will haunt me until the day I die.

Joffrey Lupul

#38. It is about getting better every game. Work ethic was the first part. We were not ready to give up and the Slovaks did not give up also. That is what the Olympics are all about. We executed where we needed to execute. It was important to play the way we always play.

Jayna Hefford

#39. I don't train to look good in the mirror. I train to make improvements in my game.

Duncan Keith

#40. 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

#41. The kid looks good in his first game.

Gordie Howe

#42. I was three-quarters down the list of guys I would be facing in my first game when I realized I was looking at our own roster.

Glenn Healy

#43. Over the weekend, Vladimir Putin scored eight goals during a hockey game. It happened just after he had the goalie executed.

Conan O'Brien

#44. 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

#45. Stanley Cup hockey comes around every year, when games start to count in multiples of best-of-seven series, and the players seem to put more attention into every pass, every check, every annoying little trick.

George Vecsey

#46. Goaltending is to hockey like putting is to golf. It really has no relationship to the rest of the game.

Harry Sinden

#47. Everything was set for us to play a real good game. Then we left the dressing room and everything went to hell.

Curt Fraser

#48. When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the neighborhood a lot, and it was all about sports. I would be out all day on the sand lot or on the hockey rink. My dad would take me to baseball games, but he worked so hard, and he would always fall asleep.

Alex Gibney

#49. One of the key qualities that you need to be a great hockey player is fantastic anticipation and feel for the game - if you know where the puck is going before it is hit, that is half the battle.

Wayne Gretzky

#50. I was 14 when I lost them [his front teeth]. The main thing was, we won that game, so I was the happiest. You hate to lose your teeth and the game, too.

Bill Barber

#51. Fifty percent of the game is mental and the other 50 percent is being mental. I've got that part down, no problem.

Basil McRae

#52. I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

Steven Chu

#53. Play every game as if it's your last one

Guy Lafleur

#54. 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

#55. It doesn't take long to play with those guys. They're so good, they really help you out in all areas of the game and make it easy on you.

Shea Weber

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

Steven Wright

#57. Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental.

Jim McKenny

#58. When you take off that sweater, your jersey, after today's game, you will be the last player in the NHL to ever wear 99. You have always been and you will always be 'The Great One,' and there will never be another.

Gary Bettman

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

Stan Mikita

#60. I create, for whatever reason, a busy schedule, but I watch hockey, all the games, either on the PC or TV. The world is now HD, and this is very good.

Hasso Plattner

#61. Why do Canadians like to do it doggie style? So they can both keep watching the hockey game

Norm Crosby

#62. I focus on the dumbness of Hagelin ... He played a hell of a game but that's all washed off from dumbness.

John Tortorella

#63. As much as I enjoy TV, I've always loved radio. And I love doing the NFL games, the Monday night games, on radio. Because you are the game. I really enjoyed calling basketball and hockey on the radio, but the presentation is more specific - you're talking all the time.

Marv Albert

#64. Its an honor to be chosen to represent the best hockey game in the world, ... Hockey fans are looking for the most authentic experience and NHL 2K6 delivers it.

Brian Boitano