Hockey Quotes

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

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.

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

The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightning, plague of locusts... nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.

I had a few fights last year, but I need to take boxing lessons. I need to, because in the NHL it's required.

When I was shooting Drive Me Crazy, I wanted to go out with the rest of the cast and stay up late and play air hockey. I just wanted to have fun.

The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.

It's a big game tomorrow, obviously, quarter finals. I think that whenever you play the Russians you always get up for it, and tomorrow is going to be even that much bigger, the quarter finals.

In a weird way, [hockey] is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one.

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

It showed nothing. I'm not pregnant.

We're not only hockey players. A lot of guys have families and girlfriends. You can't just think about hockey 24-7.

The quintessential bad - luck position. Pucks can go off bodies, skates, bounce into the net.

On Sergei Fedorov's breaking three sticks on Dallas players: I don't know if Anna (Kournikova) told him to get tougher or what.

I don't think so. Anyways, I don't spend money. My wife spends money...sorry wife.

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

I don't mind a little blood on the ice when it's a hockey rink, but I hate seeing blood on the ice when it's from baby seals.

In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.

People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

After I started to understand the spiritual dimension of life, I understood the responsibilities you have as a husband, a father, a friend and a hockey player.

My job is to score goals.

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 not only hockey, it's every sport. You know, it's a big event.

Maybe they should go back to wooden sticks.

Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy.

The coaching profession doesn't hand you any gifts.

I don't think you can really expect to win a hockey game giving up three power-play goals. In reality, you cant give up those and that's the difference in the hockey game.

When you lose the shootout, you feel like you lost the hockey game, ... But we didn't lose the hockey game. We lost a point and they gained a point. That's the reality of it.

Pizza! Hockey! Destroy!" -Cal

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

I wasn't scared (during his first at-bat). I just told them (Mo Vaughn & Kevin Mitchell') to give me all that hockey equipment (forearm pad & shin guard respectively).

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

I played my age. Not bad.

I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.

People think there is something wrong with Mike(Milbury). But there's method in his madness.

Ah, my sister used to hit me harder.

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.

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

You're too old to still be playing. I'll buy you a rocker you can sit in.

It's kind of good to get that evil monkey off my back!

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

I graduated early from high school, but up until I graduated, I was playing high school hockey. I really enjoy hockey. That's definitely what I do on my days off, for sure.

Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.

You know the old joke, I went to the fights and a hockey game broke out.

I grew up in Michigan, so I played hockey, football and basketball. I played a little bit of lacrosse, too. My brother played more lacrosse and ran track.

The great thing about hockey players is that they are able to separate the on-ice from the off-ice and not let the latter distract them.

On rookie Alex Selivanov, Yes the guy can score you 40 goals. Yes I love it. What I don't want is him causing 60.

We can't play stupid hockey, dumb hockey, greedy hockey, selfish hockey. We have to put the team ahead of our personal feelings.

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

If We Lose...We're All Screwed.