Best 584 quotes in «hockey quotes» category

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Sure, Daniel wears number 22 and Henrik number 33.

Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work.

Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds ahead, or two hundredths of a second, or two days. Napoleon on an eighteenth century battlefield had something more like a two-day advantage. Wayne Gretzky in a hockey game was probably a second ahead of everyone else on the ice.

Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey - let's face it, true Canadian - fan. I've always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I'm not crazy about hockey - but love it!

That I walk around calling people 'dummy' and 'hockey puck'. I do have a different life apart from being sarcastic on stage. I might kibitz around with my friends, but I'm nothing like the person who does stand up. Nothing like that.

The atmosphere was even greater than in Winnipeg last year. The place was almost packed for warm-ups, which was fun for us. You look at the group and you get your salute and you get the standing ovation and that means a lot to us.

That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my (expletive) clothes.

That's great. I'm 100 years old and people are still interested.

The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that passion is the most important part. It's not skills or talent or any of that stuff.

The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. ... That's a pretty scary thought.

The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: At some point, a pit bull does stop whining.

The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.

The first thing I would do when I saw Bobby coming down at me was to say a little prayer if I had time. I'm sure I wasn't the only goalie who did that.

The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.

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

The guillotine has to fall somewhere when the team under-produces, and more times than not it's fallen on me.

The great thing about hockey players is that they are able to separate the on-ice from the off-ice and not let the latter distract them.

Their toys are alive and can sometimes come to their aid, or get lost and Olie has to find them. They go to other planets. They go to the ice cream planet.

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

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 kids just aren't the same today.

The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.

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

The kid looks good in his first game.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.