Best 584 quotes in «hockey quotes» category

I focus on the dumbness of Hagelin... He played a hell of a game but that's all washed off from dumbness.

If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.

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.

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

If people see North American hockey and they see violence and brutality and it's not so interesting, that sends a message too about your culture.

If the government is to try and ban private consumption of alcohol and tobacco, it must surely ban such activities as hang-gliding, skiing, rock-climbing and so on. Where should it stop? Rugby? American Football? Ice Hockey? Insofar as the government has information not generally available about the merits or demerits of the items we ingest or the activities we engage in, let it give us the information. But let it leave us free to choose what chances we want to take with our own lives.

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

If We Lose...We're All Screwed.

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

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

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.

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

If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.

If you've only got one day to live, come see the Toronto Maple Leafs. It'll seem like forever.

I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, "You can like Mozart and ice hockey..." - and then I used to say "golf," but Tiger took over golf! - "and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.

If you're built like a freight train, you can't drive around like a Volkswagen.

I grabbed it and squeezed it back into place. It gave a little crunch and popped right in.

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

I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.

I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.

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

I guess the prime example is in North America there's a thing where if there's no opportunity to move forward with the puck, then a [hockey] player is told to dump the puck into the other zone. Just give up the puck and dump it in. Give it to the other team. And to the Soviet mentality in coaching, it just doesn't make any sense. If you're a skilled player, why are you going to give the puck away to the other team? Just give it away, right?

I had a few fights last year, but I need to take boxing lessons. I need to, because in the NHL it's required.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

I had a lot of fun in those days. It was a great experience being in the Eastern Hockey League for the simple reason that you did not have a staff.

I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available.

I had all my own teeth and I wanted to keep it that way.

I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

I have 3,000 penalty minutes. I don't need people dictating to me how to do my job.

I heard Rolex makes nice watches.

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.

I have six brothers and one sister. I grew up playing ice hockey, a total tomboy, and that’s what I thought I was going to do – be an ice hockey player.

I have to thank the guy who fired me because he was also the guy who hired me.

I just heard George W. Bush's new plan for airline security. From here on out, every plane will now have its own hockey dad.

I just tape four Tylenols to it.

... 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.

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

I know you define leads by goals having the lead, but we never really had the lead.

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

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

I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.

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.

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.

I like other sports, too, including skiing and swimming, and I am learning to play ice hockey now. But judo is definitely part of my life, a very big part, and I am glad that judo was the first sport I took up and that I have practiced it regularly and seriously. I am also grateful to Japan for this.

I'll always be Number 1 to myself.

I'll keep battling for that No. 1 spot.

I'll still run him on the ice tomorrow.

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.

I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.