Best 584 quotes in «hockey quotes» category

It's not about what you did yesterday, it's what you do tomorrow. If you rely too much on yesterday, tomorrow is going to jump up and bite you in the pants.

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

It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.

It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.

It's only game. Why you have to be mad?

It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.

It's the nuts and bolts time of the year and we don't have enough nuts and bolts.

It's tough, it's not the scenario that we wanted for sure. I thought our desperation was there, we worked hard, but it was one game, a lot can happen, they're a good team, and unfortunately we didn't win. We had some bad bounces, and in one game those make a big difference, and unfortunately it didn't go our way. But if we play hard like that, we play desperate like that and control the puck the way we did down low, I like our chances against any team.

It's too easy when you're not winning to look for excuses and point at others for reasons. You ca say 'Oh well, it's this guys fault or they don't do this well', or you can say 'I've got to play better and contribute more'. You've got to find another gear and come up with big games.

It's true that in Canada, we pride ourselves on the game, and we like to think we're the dominant hockey nation in the world.

It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.

It was a fun ride. I've enjoyed my time on the ice and I've enjoyed more and more people getting interested in the game of hockey.

It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.

It would have been worse if we hadn't blocked the kick after Toronto's second touchdown.

I used to coach a lot of hockey. I'd love to be a hockey coach, a bit more of a dramatic role and not comedic. I would go back to my hockey roots, that would be fun.

I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.

I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

I've always felt we weren't physical enough on the back line. Now there's a no - parking sign in front of our net.

I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'

I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire.

I've told you guys before, goalies don't think.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

I was always interested in sport. My family are big sports' fans. We always had all the locals round watching big sporting events. I wasn't particularly sporty myself. I played a lot of hockey and rode, still do ride, but I just had a general interest in it. When I was given the opportunity to do sport stories I used to grab them.

I was captain of the netball team, captain of the hockey team and I did my sprinting, but I would push myself. That's why yoga is really good for me because it actually slows me down and finds some sort of space for me.

I was happy to have an attraction in our building that we didn't have to pay for.

I was three-quarters down the list of guys I would be facing in my first game when I realized I was looking at our own roster.

I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.

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 was young and stupid then. Now I'm not young anymore.

I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse.

I went from junior hockey to the World Junior Championships to the combine and the draft, to the Blackhawks camp, and then a full NHL season and then the World Championships. At nineteen, that's exhausting.

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

Just use the same quotes. It's the same story.

I won't miss him. Maybe the West Edmonton Mall will miss him, but not me.

I wish that we could tumble them in the dryer for 30 minutes and get them to shrink, but that won't happen.

I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.

Just charge me with the usual.

Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.

Last night, we did the Threatdown -- God, it's hard to even talk about this -- and for the first time, I didn't mention bears. It's winter, they're asleep, I didn't think it would be a problem. But today I see this in the Toronto Globe and Mail -- apparently a 700-pound polar bear showed up at a children's hockey game. I've said this before, they're after our kids -- they're tender, juicy, you don't even have to throw away the bones.

Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.

Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.

Made up of corallitic accretions and painful increments, lit on rare occasions by bolts of revelation, and then stuffed behind the wainscotting to grope in the mouse-turd dust, art is the equivalent of athlete's foot, at best an exquisite itch, at worst an excuse to stop walking. On the emotional side, it is either masturbation with a hockey glove or a night beneath the sliding moon that shames Eros.

Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.

Luc Robitaille is a great kid and good player, but ask anybody on the street and they'd probably think Luc Robitaille is a type of salad dressing.

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

Man is that guy ripped. I mean, I've got the washboard stomach, too. It's just that mine has about two months of laundry on top of it.

Matt Cooke may be the worst fighter in the history of the National Hockey League.

Many managers feel, somewhat cynically, that people are being paid to do their jobs and that's that. This attitude reflects an insensitivity to people that is a trademark of many hockey-style managers.