Best 584 quotes in «hockey quotes» category

Aggression is part of the masculine design, we are hardwired for it.... Little girls do not invent games where large numbers of people die, where bloodshed is a prerequisite for having fun. Hockey, for example, was not a feminine creation. Nor was boxing. A boy wants to attack something - and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee.

Ah, my sister used to hit me harder.

A hockey team is like a puzzle. Every piece is vital.

All my career I've gone to teams on the decline. I went to Quebec when they were losing the Stastny brothers. I went to Edmonton after they lost Gretzky and Messier. I went to Anaheim when it was an expansion team. I came to Montreal after they'd won the Cup and were headed down. I was beginning to think it was me.

A good ice hockey player is someone who has good communication skills, is willing to listen and willing to try new things. It's a very technical game and not that easy to pick up. It's a lot of fun but you just have to be patient.

A lot of what I know as a filmmaker is because of hockey. That's teamwork, and being able to collaborate with people, and be creative with them, and get the most out of everybody. Everyone's got different talents, and you've got to bring out the best of everybody, and use your strengths and work together, and try and evolve it rather than do what was done before you, and to push into new areas.

All that means is that I'll be 783 years old when I catch Scotty Bowman.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's philosophical objection to the Canadian health system, it is, broadly, fair: Unless you're a cabinet minister or a big time hockey player, you'll enjoy the same equality of crappiness and universal lack of access that everybody else does. But, even before it's up-and-running, Pelosi-Reid-Obamacare is an impenetrable thicket of contradictory boondoggles, shameless payoffs and arbitrary shakedowns.

American Journalism is dead… They have behaved like hockey goalies in front of Barack Obama’s net.

And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

An avowed homosexual, that would never be accepted in hockey - never! Because it's a milieu where everyone is often naked.

And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.

A player must be able to skate, have hockey sense, be able to shoot, but not necessarily be able to score.

Any sport that comes from Scotland is good!

Anything coach Babcock needs me to do, I'll do it and if it's face-off well, I'm willing and ready to do that obviously.

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.

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

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

As opposed to living the rich life and consuming as much as possible, people have to take a step back. Instead of buying the biggest diamond or having 18 cars, do other things. Buying the biggest thing is outdated and there is no excuse for it.

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).

At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

Aw, don't worry about that Doc. If it happens I could always come back as a forward.

At the end of each year I make a list of my mistakes and it's pretty friggin long.

A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.

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

Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying.

Bettman is an asshole. A frikkin asshole. I think he's ruined the game of hockey. He's supposed to be impartial. He's supposed to speak for the good of the league, but in my opinion, he's strictly behind the owners. Those 1996 rule changes are a joke

Before I was 14, I wanted to be a singer, an actor, or a hockey player. By 15, I knew I was going to be a singer.

Because he stinks on the power play. He stinks. I don't know why. I wish I could put him on the power play, but every time I put him on, he stinks.

Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon.

Biologically, I'm 10. Chronologically, I'm 33. In hockey years, I'm 66.

Both of my parents were raised in Christian homes, which was great. They instilled in us that God came first and they showed us what it was like to have a relationship with Christ. I accepted Christ at a young age, at the age of six years old, and just tried to play hockey and balance that.

But inside of me I knew that the Olympics were still there. I was still young enough. I knew that once I transitioned out of hockey, it would be really hard to go back.

By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series.

But there was a hockey game where they didn't even play hockey, they just threw the puck aside and started fighting. I saw that and I thought, 'Oh man, I'm a thug?' So I'm really disappointed in being called a thug.

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Canadian hockey players always find a way to get along.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

Bobby would drive to the net injured, he would drive to the net hurt. He played that way every night. He told Bobby that he was the one who made him famous.

Call them pros, call them mercenaries - but in fact they are just grown - up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or flooded corner lot that hockey is the greatest thrill of all.

Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.

Chunking makes our brains more efficient. The more you can chunk something, the faster and easier you can process it. Wayne Gretzky had chunked hockey like no one before or since. Talented people have supremely chunked whatever they become talented at doing.

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

Comedy is similar to hockey... in only one way. You get a lot of credit for assists. So I try to serve whatever the intention is, be it the joke or the story or the scene or the moment or the kiss, even if it's not my joke or moment.

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!

Don't feel sorry because my life is over. Be happy that it happened.

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.