Hockey Quotes

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

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.

I didn't hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears.

Sports are my passion and I really enjoy connecting with others who share my love of the game

I don't care what people say about me and what they think about me. I care about my team and I care about myself. Lots of people watch hockey, and I think everybody has different thinking.

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

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

We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.

It is pretty tough for a goalie when you look at it. You're always the last line of defense. If you let a goal in, you can't go to the bench and hide between the guys or anything

I just tape four Tylenols to it.

Hockey taught me to challenge myself and be the best I can be on and off the ice.

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.

I try to hold it in until I get on the ice, then in front of the net sometimes I'll pass gas.

Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.

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.

Canadian hockey players always find a way to get along.

You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone.

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

The goal is too small and the goalies are too big.

Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.

Many times I had to dig deep and perform. All of that adversity helped me and drove me to want to be the best.

I've always had a passion for hockey, ... That's the key. You can't be putting in time. You have to enjoy doing what you do.

Right now I'm scoring goals and I'm the king of the world. And a couple weeks ago I was almost in the toilet. So maybe you just forget to flush me.

Hockey is my life, you know. If I do not play hockey, I do not know what I do.

A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.

Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself.

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

Hockey is an amazing sport and it has definitely had a positive impact on my life. But my dad always said school comes first, and if I didn't do well in school I didn't get to play hockey.

How would you like it if, at your job, every time you made the slightest mistake a little red light went on over your head and 18,000 people stood up and screamed at you?

Maybe's he's just jealous I have hair.

I am who I am. Life is too beautiful to be sad, to be depressed. The sun comes up every day and it's beautiful.

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.

Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor.

If you can't beat 'em in the alley, you can't beat 'em on the ice.

I hear they had our flag on their dressing room floor. I wonder if they'd like us to sign it?

Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.

I could not hear what they say about me, my 2 Stanley Cup rings were stuffed in my ears.

Sometimes, you get the bear. Sometimes, the bear gets you.

Cournoyer has it on that wing. Here's a shot - Henderson made a wild stab for it and fell. Here's another shot! Right in front - THEY SCORE!!! Henderson has scored for Canada!

Blood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow 'cause there's no one left to beat.

Hockey is like a religion in Montreal. You're either a saint or a sinner; there's no in-between.

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

Hockey is a tough game.

My teeth weren't that good to begin with, so hopefully I can get some better ones.

The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.

I'm probably the only guy in hockey who can win a scoring title and everybody is saying I had a bad year. I don't worry about it.

To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.

I don't think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.