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The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom.

Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.

The one thing I'd always wanted to do in my career is push myself out of my comfort zone - I think I'm really comfortable with being uncomfortable. So that's why I played pro men's hockey, that's why I played softball and hockey at the same time, that's why I'm not afraid to speak up - that's just who I am.

The only difference between the Coyotes and 'Days of Our Lives' is that nobody has been shot on our team yet.

The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward.

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

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

The only way a kid is going to practise is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

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

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

The quintessential bad - luck position. Pucks can go off bodies, skates, bounce into the net.

The remedy now is two scotches and an aspirin, I think.

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

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.

There are two types of forwards. Scorers and bangers. Scorers score and bangers bang.

There's an old saying that when it gets tough the tough get going. You have to work your way through these things.

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.

There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.

The whole world knows that American TV companies have monopolized Olympic broadcasts and in order to please the fans in their country they do everything they can to keep American viewers interested in what is going on at the hockey rink in Sochi. According to their logic, Americans should always win, no matter what. It was absolutely obvious that [Fyodor] Tyutin's goal yesterday should have been allowed. This was clear to the whole world except the American referee, American TV and those officials with American passports who rule international hockey, grossly neglecting all Olympic principles.

The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven’t been skating as a kid it’s impossible to play - and I wasn’t a skater.

The three important elements in hockey are: the forecheck, the backcheck and the paycheck.

The Tragically Hip, more so than any other band I've worked with, approach their work like a team. This might sound way too pat, but they're like a great hockey team: all five of them have their roles. They go at their shows like an athletic event; they're in it to win it, and they'll lay it out there on the proverbial ice in order to win and get the crowd on their side. You can't do that when you just throw a band together. There's a sixth sense there that makes it easy.

There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey game. Either or, they don't do justice to the media and you end up with a hybrid that is purely sensationalistic. Opera is a very theatrical medium that should be seen on a stage with the musicians in the pit in the audience.

There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.

The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.

They do a lot of talking, but I'm not sure they actually understand each other.

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

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

They were checking us so closely, I could tell what brand of deodorant they were using.

This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.

This was football played at the speed of ice hockey and the ball was in play for only 53 minutes of the 90. The Premiership at its highest level is enthralling, edge-of-the-seat stuff, but sometimes it is too fast and frenetic for its own good.

To his US Olympic team - Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow.

Two or three years ago, every game I want to score. And after I score a goal I have a spark and I'm so happy I want more. Now I'mkind of different. I'm not saying I lost my spark - I still have it - but I don't chase the goal as much as I used to. I'm playing for the team andI still know I can score, but it's different than two or three years back.Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they winthe Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season. You have to play defense, that's how you win.

Tomorrow, America's most famous hockey mom, Sarah Palin, will drop the ceremonial first puck at the Philadelphia Flyers game. Right afterwards, she'll get out on the ice and skate around reporters' questions, so it should be interesting.

Usually when you play a team, you want to focus on one line. Pittsburgh is the only team where you have to focus on one player [Mario Lemieux]. When he's coming toward you, all you see is him.

Usually, I'm on the bus by now, having a beer and waiting for everyone else. This is cutting into my beer time.

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

Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.

Wayne Gretzky's talent doesn't come from studying everything he's experienced in hockey and making long-term game plans. It comes from constantly taking in all the data that's happening in the moment on the ice, and instantly generating constant predictions based on super-efficient mental models he's built in his head. Technology has to work more like Gretzky.

Wayne came over to the bench one day after seeing (Zdeno) Chara, and said 'That's why I'm quitting.'

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

We need to look at what Europe is doing to get better and try to get better ourselves. We need to make some changes and that can only be good for the game. Tolstoy once said, 'Everybody wants to change the world, but they don't want to change themselves.' So we all have to change our thinking and focus on getting our kids better.

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

We don't want you at the rink, we don't want you in the stadium, we don't want you to watch hockey.

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

We brought him [Raffi Torres] in because he was an emotional, physical player. He's had nothing but a great attitude and a great work ethic with us all year long. He comes to play, prepares himself real well. We need him to play the way he does. You know, he's a little bit sometimes outside the box, but you've got to let him be who he is.

We can't score goals, we can't stop goals, we aren't hitting, we can't play on special teams... we all stink. We can try to improve but to do so we will need to make trades. And who would want our players that are underachieving?

We feel fortunate [with Canada hockey team]. We have got a lot of guys who love to play, but they also love to win even more. We are pretty happy. Although we are young, we like our group of players.

We have a huge game coming up in semi-finals. Just studying Finland or the Americans, whoever we're playing. Just moving forward, working hard in practice and making sure we stay sharp.

We have to get families back in the game, get back where Saturday night, everything stops. A case of beer comes out and a bottle of rye and anyone who comes to the house, they better want to watch hockey.