Quotes About Hockey Players

#1. I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.

Ted Lindsay

#2. Monogamous musicians are like vegan hockey players.

Rob Sheffield

#3. Yes. And yes, the carpet matches the drapes. I've only been asked that like three dozen times by hockey players, so don't consider yourself original.

Brenda Rothert

#4. For good reasons, there are no ties during the Stanley Cup season. Somebody needs to win so the lads can get out to their cottages on the lakes, where all hockey players spend their summers, or so I have been told.

George Vecsey

#5. It is no fun lining up in your own building - as the hockey players say - and touching the hands of fellow stubbly louts who have just sent you off to the proverbial cabin on the lake.

George Vecsey

#6. The chair legs behind me scrape against the floor, and Douchecanoe shrinks in his seat as over six hundred pounds of angry hockey players stare down at him. Fitzy is particularly menacing with his two full-sleeve tattoos and the cut over his eyebrow that he got during our last game.

Elle Kennedy

#7. We're not only hockey players. A lot of guys have families and girlfriends. You can't just think about hockey 24-7.

Mike Comrie

#8. There are some guys you definitely would not want dating your sister - especially hockey players.

Patrick Kane

#9. The girls are all talking and laughing, trying to get pumped up and for just one small sliver of a moment, I stop. Taking it all in because this is something I've really missed over the last year. The comradery of a team. The sisterhood of hockey players. Girls who have your back.

Jennifer Sucevic

#10. Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be awesome. The team from Mexico could wear those Mr. X masks. The French wrestler could hit his opponent with a baguette. Or perhaps just surrender.

Craig Ferguson

#11. The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.

Shawn Mendes

#12. Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry.

Brett Hull

#13. A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.

Jimmy Cannon

#14. Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.

Bob Plager

#15. Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

Jamie Farr

#16. we put the stories of hockey players and the Beatles and

Malcolm Gladwell

#17. 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

#18. I went by Kyle, and I made friends on the team as Kyle. It went on for a pretty long time, until I went to a birthday party in a dress and all the hockey players were like ... 'Kyle?'

Katie Nolan

#19. Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

Pierre Trudeau

#20. Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#21. Canadian hockey players always find a way to get along.

Carey Price

#22. I coach hockey players - some of them just happen to be girls. When I'm coaching youth hockey, I put the boys and girls together and they can't tell the difference. They are just playing hockey.

Natalie Darwitz

#23. The great thing about hockey players is that they are able to separate the on-ice from the off-ice and not let the latter distract them.

Stu Grimson

#24. All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

Gordie Howe

#25. Personally I don't believe in standing on the ice, or jamming the blueline, waiting. I have always told my players that hockey has to be played on your toes.

Bob Hartley

#26. There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.

Stan Mikita

#27. 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

#28. You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.

Joe Sakic

#29. Trades are happening, and I have two players that if they don't get their crap together I'm going to castrate them."

He took in a sharp breath. "Don't castrate my teammates, sweetheart, it will affect how they play.

Toni Aleo

#30. Hockey lends itself to special events, including the Olympic competition: a glorious tournament of the best players in the world, putting on their national jerseys and playing on big rinks with no-goon Olympic rules and referee enforcement.

George Vecsey

#31. I just want to remind the owners and the players: you guys make money because you have a whole bunch of fans out there who are working really hard. They buy tickets. They're watching on TV. Ya'll should be able to figure this out. Get this done.

Barack Obama

#32. I stickhandle a lot at practice. I watch a lot of hockey, so I try to either pick up something from other players or watch some video and see what kind of move would work in the same situation.

Patrick Kane

#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. He's one of the most coachable players out there.

Jonathan Toews

#35. On Sergei Fedorov's breaking three sticks on Dallas players: I don't know if Anna (Kournikova) told him to get tougher or what.

Mike Modano

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

Harry Neale

#37. I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.

Andy Rooney

#38. Without the support of my mom, Marlene, I would not be the person I am. She has been my main supporter throughout my career, and I owe everything to her. This is a small way that we, as players, can pay tribute to her and other hockey moms, and it is all for a good cause.

Sean Avery

#39. In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the sport is. But in hockey, you have the boards. I just couldn't say which is more physical.

Sidney Crosby

#40. Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

Martina Hingis

#41. I think the game has gotten better. (The two-ref system) keeps players from taking cheap shots behind the play. I never thought I'd like it, considering the way I like to hack.

Brian Skrudland

#42. My focus was always first and foremost to stop the puck. I never let the other players on the other team get to me.

Andy Moog

#43. 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

#44. We can't score goals, we can't stop goals, we aren't hitting, we can't play on special teams ... we all stink. We can try to improve but to do so we will need to make trades. And who would want our players that are underachieving?

Ted Leonsis

#45. There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed.

Angela Ruggiero

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. [In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.

Eric Gagne