Quotes About Lacrosse

#1. All our lives are enriched by the leadership and excellence and confidence of female athletes, whether the Mia Hamms and Maya Moores we know or the field hockey, lacrosse and track and field athletes we do not necessarily know.

George Vecsey

#2. I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

Julie Bowen

#3. There is nothing you can be doing in lacrosse on your own in the fall that would be better for you than going to football or soccer practice every day. You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.

Dom Starsia

#4. The ultimate goal of lacrosse is to score goals. The more goals a team can score, the more likely they are to win a game.

Kelly Amonte Hiller

#5. My eyes meet his eyes.
"You were a jerk," I say.
His hands move to my cheeks. "I'm sorry."
I pull away, but I can only go an inch before I bump into lacrosse sticks, not that I really want to go any farther. "Nope. No way. You do not get to kiss me yet."
He pouts.

Carrie Jones

#6. If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players.

Conn Smythe

#7. If I was US Lacrosse, I wouldn't let any kids play field until they were 10 or 12,

Bill Tierney

#8. I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns.

Will McDonough

#9. Until box lacrosse grows in the United States, it'll continue to be this way.

Bill Tierney

#10. Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks.

Ally Carter

#11. Lacrosse is probably the best sport I ever played.

Jim Brown

#12. I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.

Wayne Gretzky

#13. It's lacrosse that helped teach me to spin off checks, take shots and protect the puck under pressure. My stick skills, the way to read the play quickly comes from lacrosse. The hand-eye coordination, is just one of the little things that helps you in hockey.

John Tavares

#14. Exy was a bastard sport, an evolved sort of lacrosse on a soccer-sized court with the violence of ice hockey, and Neil loved every part of it.

Nora Sakavic

#15. The goals for Virginia lacrosse don't change a lot from year to year. We look at the lineup, start every year on Sept. 1 with the realistic goal to play at the end of the season, the very last game. This team has the talent to be able to do that.

Dom Starsia

#16. I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.

Robin Williams

#17. I don't consider lacrosse a sport. To me that's just a frat activity that got out of hand.

Judah Friedlander

#18. Besides Camden and Derek, there were two lacrosse guys, Brad Slater and Dave Markley, which meant that the combined I.Q. of the table was probably . . . four.

Cherry Cheva

#19. I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black every day, and I went to a school that was lacrosse players and Izods.

Peter Dinklage

#20. I could fully express myself in lacrosse.

Jim Brown

#21. I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.

Frank Grillo

#22. Then you remember that Jack
that's his name, the mac & cheese
plays lacrosse. That's probably where he got all those yummy muscles. You need two hands for lacrosse.
A pinky? Damn, you might as well starve yourself.

Alaya Dawn Johnson

#23. When you talk about Lacrosse, you talk about the lifeblood of the six nations. The game is ingrained into our culture and our system and our lives. (the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora)

Oren Lyons

#24. Hurling looks a bit like a cross between lacrosse and second degree murder.

David Feherty

#25. There are guys who play lacrosse, and there are lacrosse players.

Brendan Mundorf

#26. I grew up with lacrosse in my life because my dad played lacrosse all throughout college, so I grew up with the gear in my house - like the sticks, the helmet.

Tyler Posey

#27. Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse meets basketball.

St. Vincent

#28. Being a part of the finesse and physicality of box lacrosse has been a great experience for me. I feel that I have learned and improved as an overall lacrosse player. Learning to adapt in tight space while reading defenders and offensive players has been the biggest improvement in my game.

Paul Rabil

#29. You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.

Peter Greenaway

#30. You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.

Nash Grier

#31. I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.

Action Bronson

#32. I would never tell anybody to give up hockey - the great sports we have here - basketball, lacrosse - rugby coming into its own - we've got so many great team sports, and I say hold on to them.

George Vecsey

#33. There are certain things in life that just suck. Pouring a big bowl of Lucky Charms before realizing the milk is expired, the word 'moist,' falling face-first into the salad bar in front of the entire lacrosse team ...

Lauren Morrill

#34. I grew up in Michigan, so I played hockey, football and basketball. I played a little bit of lacrosse, too. My brother played more lacrosse and ran track.

Steven Yeun

#35. We begin to resemble what we focus on. If we devote our lives to our jobs, then we mentally take the office to our daughter's lacrosse game.

Paul Miller

#36. You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'

Artie Lange

#37. When you watch Canadian kids [Box Lacrosse Players] score, when you see their skill level around the cage, you wonder to yourself, 'Jeez, are we teaching kids [in the U.S.] the wrong things?

Dom Starsia

#38. I played lacrosse for a hot second, but I was mainly a swimmer - captain of my swim team.

Grace Gummer

#39. I'd rather play lacrosse six days a week and football on the seventh.

Jim Brown

#40. We can accommodate Mr. Delgado as well. (LaCrosse)
'He'd agreed with polite grace, but he wasn't particularly happy. Someone had him by the short hairs and was braiding them.' (Carlos)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#41. Henry narrowed his eyes at me. "You going somewhere?"
"Lacrosse field trip," I said. "I enjoy whacking the hell out of people with mallets.

Robin Benway

#42. I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.

Wayne Gretzky

#43. I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse.

Nicole Ari Parker

#44. If Garp was going to play lacrosse, Jenny thought, where would he go? Not out, because it's dark; he'd lose the ball.

John Irving

#45. The last thing we can afford right now is to make excuses. We're inexperienced at some spots, that's the way it is. We have injuries, so does everyone, that's the way it is.

Dave Pietramala

#46. There was no publicity. You had to like it. There was no pressure, just great competition. The attitude of the coaches and players was exceptional.

Jim Brown

#47. We're doing our homework to make sure we're prepared.

Gary Gait