Hockey Quotes

I have been practising since I was 4 or 5 years old, but that wasn't really practice. I was just having fun.... I just loved to play hockey.

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

Hockey is my life and money is money. If you think about money, you stop playing hockey.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

There is no escalator to [hockey] success only steps.

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.

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

One thing I hate is people screaming at me. If you want me to do something, talk to me. When someone screams at me to hurry up, I slow down.

I just made up my mind that I was going to lose my teeth and have my face cut to pieces.

At the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals: Win today and we walk together forever.

We don't care what that bug-eyed fat walrus has to say.

They always try to play with our minds. But that won't work with our club. We've got 20 guys without brains.

There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.

Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.

If you make one mistake, it can result in vasectomy.

If you want something as bad as you want to breathe, then you can do it.

It must be the body. It's chiseled out of marshmallows.

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).

Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.

After the hockey stick, Sardara Singh scores with the broom! A great effort by him towards a Swachh Bharat.

The only job worse is a javelin catcher at a track - and - field meet.

The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.

Most fans go wild when they see a goalie make what looks like a great save, but the chances are what they are seeing is a save that was made from being out of position.

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

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.

No one in Montreal learns how to skate. You're just born that way.

Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

Some guys score and some guys don't. We got a lot that don't.

One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

We only speak two languages here: English and profanity.

There's no reason why a player is done at 33, 34. They train better, they eat better, they drink better. This isn't the old days when everybody sat around and drank beer.

I can't hear what Jeremy says because my ears are blocked with my two Stanley Cup Rings.

Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.

I wear whatever makes me comfortable on stage, so that I feel confident. Some days it's a plaid skirt with a button-up and other days it's jeans with a hockey jersey and platforms.

I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool.

If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

When I left here I left everything here. It's time to move on

You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.

I don't order fries with my club sandwich.

A huge part of my passion for the sport comes from being Canadian and growing up watching Hockey Night in Canada on CBC with my parents and siblings.

Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.

I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It's what I love the most.

This is your moment. You're meant to be here.

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.

I grew up on a farm and I always learned when you work you go forward, you don't stop and say, well, I'll take a break. You always go forward and get the job done.