Best 584 quotes in «hockey quotes» category

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

I had a lot of fun in those days. It was a great experience being in the Eastern Hockey League for the simple reason that you did not have a staff.

I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available.

I had all my own teeth and I wanted to keep it that way.

I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.

I have 3,000 penalty minutes. I don't need people dictating to me how to do my job.

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

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

I just tape four Tylenols to it.

... 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 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 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 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 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'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'll still run him on the ice tomorrow.

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

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

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 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 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 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 just glad it wasn't Machete Night.

I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

In the playoffs will beats skill.