Top 100 Quotes About Nhl
#1. Guys like him ruin it for everybody else. It's just embarrassing. Or maybe he's not embarrassed because he probably believes he's not doing it-that's how liars are.
Chris Chelios
#2. Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor.
Fred Shero
#3. The only difference between the Coyotes and 'Days of Our Lives' is that nobody has been shot on our team yet.
Jeremy Roenick
#4. Orr is the greatest young hockey player that's come along since I've been here.
Bobby Hull
#5. I need to see where I am physically and practicing with NHL players is the best way to find that out.
Mary Lynn Rajskub
#6. Wrapping Christmas presents is tough. Even peeling a Mandarin orange is tough. I have to get my kids to help me.
Brendan Morrison
#7. Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.
Guy Lafleur
#8. It didn't feel like it was anything too major, but if you had to look at one hit that would be it.
Sidney Crosby
#9. Anybody who says they don't like fighting in the NHL have to be out of their minds.
Donald Stewart Cherry
#10. On sheer ability, Mario is good enough to win scoring titles with a broken stick. On pure talent, he's the best there is. But Wayne almost never disappoints you. He comes to work every night.
Bobby Orr
#11. We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.
Brad Park
#12. I think the deal is not great for the players. It is definitely an owner-friendly deal.
Jeremy Roenick
#14. I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.
Patrick Roy
#15. 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
#16. I look at it as a challenge, ... I'm not going to put too much added pressure on myself. I want to play in the NHL, and after that [happens], I can worry about things beyond that.
Sidney Crosby
#17. I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
Eddie Cahill
#18. By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I'm still healthy.
Wayne Gretzky
#19. Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.
Margaret Atwood
#20. I'm just glad it wasn't Machete Night.
Bob Froese
#21. I know you define leads by goals having the lead, but we never really had the lead.
Darryl Sutter
#23. What scares me is how easily it happened.
Mark Recchi
#25. The fighting in the NHL, especially, and, I think, in some of the minor leagues, it's usually the loudest and the most excited the crowd gets during the entire the game.
John Branch
#26. 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
#27. I think any time you play your first NHL game, you remember that.
Ron Francis
#28. It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
Wayne Gretzky
#29. The NHL is the best league in the world, but it's a grind. You sometimes forget, especially if you are losing, or missing the playoffs ... how fun this game can be.
Thomas Vanek
#30. I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.
Vincent Piazza
#31. Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.
Wayne Gretzky
#32. 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
#34. Peter Forsberg's skills and determination made him one of the most powerful forwards in the NHL during the best years of his career. Hearing of his retirement is sad news but one day every athlete has to come to this decision. He should be very proud of all he accomplished throughout his career.
Patrick Roy
#35. Every time I see you naked, I feel sorry for your wife.
Jaromir Jagr
#37. Maybe there wasn't much hot water in the showers. I'm not sure.
Scott Stevens
#38. I'm obviously into the sports. The NFL games and the NHL games.
Jeremy Roenick
#39. I don't want to get into a 'he said, she said' with the refs ... I'm the he.
Chris Pronger
#40. A big part of my decision is not made about whether I'm able to coach in the NHL or if I'm ready to step up and take that challenge. Basically, it's about my family, it's about my children, and this is where my decision is going to have to be made.
Patrick Roy
#41. 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
#42. Ovechkin does not play like a Russian. He plays like an NHL player.
Vladislav Tretiak
#43. 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
#45. A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.
Guy Lafleur
#46. I Didn't Drop My Gloves. They Were Pulled Off Me!
Mike Modano
#47. I told her they must all be sold out.
Wade Belak
#48. My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.
Jaromir Jagr
#49. Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.
Doug Larson
#50. I refuse to confirm or deny anything about any deal to purchase an American NHL franchise and move it to Canada until I've completed all of the paperwork and the deal is closed.
Jim Balsillie
#51. I feel more comfortable confidence-wise. You get to the NHL, and you're nervous about trying things. With experience, you're not as afraid of being creative.
Martin St. Louis
#52. Playing 10 years in the NHL, almost 600 games, there's going to be some wear and tear for everybody.
Mike Comrie
#53. Once you win the Cup once, you feel like it's yours. You don't want to give it up.
Jonathan Toews
#54. Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental.
Jim McKenny
#55. We can no longer ignore the stupidity of the hits that are still happening today despite the fact that the players know the concussion aspect is such a big part of the game and sports in general.
Jeremy Roenick
#56. 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
#57. The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand; the NHL has less to lose, and it's in their best interest to generate buzz any way they can.
Bill Simmons
#59. It is an immense privilege to be able to play in the NHL. I was very blessed and a lot of things went my way to be able to make it.
Pat LaFontaine
#60. Over the years, Steve has come to understand I need the clicker. He says it's my security blanket.
Brendan Shanahan
#61. It's kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL
Wayne Gretzky
#62. I'm going through the neutral zone and I've got a guy tugging me through the whole way, if I don't go down, I'm not going to get a call.
Paul Kariya
#63. As opposed to living the rich life and consuming as much as possible, people have to take a step back. Instead of buying the biggest diamond or having 18 cars, do other things. Buying the biggest thing is outdated and there is no excuse for it.
Andrew Ference
#64. So here I am running at guys who aren't taller than 5-foot-8, and I'm the one who tears up his knee.
Chris Chelios
#65. 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
#66. No, that's not true. I didn't see his place that much, but he's a good kid and I had fun playing with him.
Patrick Kane
#67. I can't wait for the crowd, the noise, the energy in the building. I can't wait to take that all away from them.
P. K. Subban
#68. I'm a firm believer that everything in life works out the way it's supposed to. And who knows? I figure I've got a few years left (in the NHL) and maybe I can come back in the end.
Darren McCarty
#69. Just use the same quotes. It's the same story.
Bryan Murray
#70. There are two types of forwards. Scorers and bangers. Scorers score and bangers bang.
Ken Dryden
#71. It seems like we're doing just enough to lose by a little.
Darryl Sutter
#72. He's a gutless puke, that's what Travis Green is. That's why he doesn't wear an Islander uniform any more.
Mike Milbury
#73. It was the kind of light blow that is exchanged without notice or consequence hundreds of times in a game.
Ken Dryden
#74. Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL.
Guy Lafleur
#75. When emotions are high, things are said, things are done. Ultimately, these players want to play. I know too many of them love the game too much.
Wayne Gretzky
#76. I have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it's a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you're in the NHL.
Wayne Gretzky
#77. My first season Butch Bouchard accidentally sent me to the hospital for three days with a concussion, but I never backed away from Butch or anyone else after I came back.
Ted Lindsay
#78. You know what? I did! I impressed myself just making it.
Brett Hull
#79. Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.
Steve Yzerman
#80. I smile. "Mr. Perfect Beautiful Hockey God?"
"Oh, shut up. You know it's true," she replies in a flat tone. "You should be the face of the NHL. They should put you on billboards in Times Square. You're hot and your charm levels are through the roof.
Victoria Denault
#81. The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward.
Terry Crisp
#82. Eight days ago, we were the toast of the town. Eight days later we're Thanksgiving turkeys.
Wayne Gretzky
#83. They left us together for a reason. Let's show them why.
Patrick Kane
#84. If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I'd choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.
Wayne Gretzky
#85. It's good for the NHL to implement different things - the 3-on-3, money that'll go to players - to try to get us to play at a higher level.
Patrick Kane
#86. You try to squeeze a little more Charmin in the pads when you face him.
Kevin Hodson
#87. There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.
Carl Hagelin
#88. Dad, they used to tell Wayne Gretzky that he was to small, and that he would never make the NHL look at him now I replied
Mike Leonetti
#89. I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was.
Carol Alt
#90. My teeth weren't that good to begin with, so hopefully I can get some better ones.
Duncan Keith
#91. You have Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan ... and Mario Lemieux. He's the best in hockey, in my opinion.
Kordell Stewart
#92. Wild Thing made their hearts sing. But he couldn't top everything.
Terry Jones
#93. We're trying to work on Sami to get through that and shoot the puck. MacInnis shot the puck all the time. If there was a fool who wanted to stand in front and break an ankle, tough luck.
Alain Vigneault
#94. The NHL is the best in the world, it has the best players. I love the NHL.
Alexander Ovechkin
#95. Every time you sustain a head injury, the risk gets higher and higher. I always said that if there ever was a point where the risk was more than minimal, I would stop playing.
Pat LaFontaine
#96. I try to hold it in until I get on the ice, then in front of the net sometimes I'll pass gas.
P. K. Subban
#97. A lot of people don't realize that I started my career in sports and was a sports reporter long before I was on television. I used to be an NBA reporter and an NHL reporter.
George Stroumboulopoulos
#98. Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.
Bobby Orr
#99. 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
#100. This is really a new NHL and it's built on speed and young guys.
Mario Lemieux
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