Best 584 quotes in «hockey quotes» category

I have been practising since I was 4 or 5 years old, but that wasn't really practice. I was just having fun.... I just loved to play hockey.

I have six brothers and one sister. I grew up playing ice hockey, a total tomboy, and that’s what I thought I was going to do – be an ice hockey player.

I have to thank the guy who fired me because he was also the guy who hired me.

I heard Rolex makes nice watches.

I just heard George W. Bush's new plan for airline security. From here on out, every plane will now have its own hockey dad.

I just tape four Tylenols to it.

I just want to comment on how It's become a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in Love with my sloppy seconds

... I just want to remind the owners and the players: you guys make money because you have a whole bunch of fans out there who are working really hard. They buy tickets. They're watching on TV. Ya'll should be able to figure this out. Get this done.

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.

I know my players don't like my practices, but that's OK because I don't like their games.

I know you define leads by goals having the lead, but we never really had the lead.

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.

I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.

I like other sports, too, including skiing and swimming, and I am learning to play ice hockey now. But judo is definitely part of my life, a very big part, and I am glad that judo was the first sport I took up and that I have practiced it regularly and seriously. I am also grateful to Japan for this.

I look at it as a challenge, ... I'm not going to put too much added pressure on myself. I want to play in the NHL, and after that [happens], I can worry about things beyond that.

I'll still run him on the ice tomorrow.

I'll always be Number 1 to myself.

I'll keep battling for that No. 1 spot.

I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

I loved curling and I loved the social aspect of it, the team. It's like if you had the same golf foursome for a long time, or if you're a bridge player, or a beer-league hockey team. You start to look forward to that time together and camaraderie, and having something that you do just for yourself.

I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

I love to play for Pittsburgh. If they can't afford me, then I'd love to play in L.A. or New York.

I love to play hockey. I'm a huge hockey fan and I love to play as well.

I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.

I'm always working out; I did ice hockey in high school, but I'm not a dance person. I mean, this was horrible, but I had a dance double in my high-school musical.

I'm hoping for a bench clearing brawl during the warm up so I can go out and grab his stick.

I'm gonna catch you with your head down tonight. I'm gonna take it off.

I'm just glad it wasn't Machete Night.

I'm on the third line. I'm a crasher. I know my role. I'm just trying to help. I'm not stupid enough to think I'm great out there.

I'm leaving the game of hockey with nothing but great memories...

I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.

I'm process-orientated, and people say that about the details. But I love the players. My No. 1 job is to make them better men. My No. 2 job is to make them better at hockey, and I never confuse that. The best people I've ever been around in my life never let me get away with anything - ever. You can have all the details in the world, but if you can't communicate with people and find a way to help them help themselves, you have no chance in this league. To me, that's what the profession is about: getting guys to believe in themselves and each other.

I'm probably the only guy in hockey who can win a scoring title and everybody is saying I had a bad year. I don't worry about it.

I'm obsessed with hockey and my son's a big player. I spend a lot of time driving to the ice rink and I'm a huge Los Angeles Kings fan. So, yeah, I'm a hockey mama - a cool hockey mama.

In the playoffs will beats skill.

In a way, by being fully committed to the Olympic movement globally, I'm better able to promote women's hockey and talk about women's hockey and put a face to women's hockey, to all the IOC members.

I never wanted to be an actor as a kid. I wanted to play hockey, like every other kid in Canada. I had a pretty good shot at it until I was 15 and badly injured myself.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

In the U.S., coaches could be the father next door. They had no formal training. They're like old hockey players. They don't go to school and study.

In biblical times, I stoned people to death. Now they are repaying me by hurling pucks at my head.

[In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.

In the old days, that was my ad-lib for hecklers in the joints I worked. It stuck with me. I hardly say it now, say, to fans, even though people do send me hockey pucks.

I say no words... I can't speak with him. I shy. He too good.

I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.

I played my age. Not bad.

I play hockey in a pickup league. I grew up playing, so it's nice to get on the ice whenever I can.

I played ice hockey obsessively for 14 years of my life.

I remember my first year, I hit him with three good punches and couldn't believe he was still standing. He hit me with one and cracked my helmet. My head hurt for a week.