Best 584 quotes in «hockey quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Many times I had to dig deep and perform. All of that adversity helped me and drove me to want to be the best.

Maybe's he's just jealous I have hair.

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

Maybe they should go back to wooden sticks.

Maybe there wasn't much hot water in the showers. I'm not sure.

Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.

Monogamous musicians are like vegan hockey players.

Most kids start playing hockey at the age of five, I was an earlier bloomer. My parents laced up my first pair of skates and put me on the ice at the young age of 2 ½, basically right after I mastered walking.

My best friend had a hockey scholarship at Ohio State, so I would get a couple of pairs at the beginning of the season and send them down to him. They practised two hours a day. He'd skate in them for three weeks then ship them back.

Milt was one of the men who discovered Bobby Orr. He once said that if a player comes along who is better then Bobby Orr, may the Good Lord let me be alive to see him because he is going to be one hell of a player to watch. Enough said.

My brother Dash hit me on the head with five textbooks in a gym bag.

My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don't think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.

My focus was always first and foremost to stop the puck. I never let the other players on the other team get to me.

Most people have friends, but no money. I have the opposite. I don't have a chance to talk to my real friends, the ones I've had since I was 5 years old. Sometimes I wish I could bring Czechoslovakia to America. Then I would be the happiest guy in the world.

My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars.

My grandmother was from Guelph, Ont. I grew up playing ice hockey, I'm a massive fan. A great-uncle who was in the early days of the NHL played for the Chicago Blackhawks.

My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.

My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.