Hockey Quotes

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

My dad has always said to me, "where there is a will there is a way" and this is the type of dedication hockey has taught me. Being dedicated to this sport [hockey] has been my will to play.

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

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 can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It's what I love the most.

Over the years, Steve has come to understand I need the clicker. He says it's my security blanket.

Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.

This is your moment. You're meant to be here.

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.

Effort is a measure of a Man.

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 grew up on a farm and I always learned when you work you go forward, you don't stop and say, well, I'll take a break. You always go forward and get the job done.

How would you like a job where, if you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

I slept like a baby. Every two hours, I woke up and cried.

Usually when you play a team, you want to focus on one line. Pittsburgh is the only team where you have to focus on one player [Mario Lemieux]. When he's coming toward you, all you see is him.

I don't fear stopping a 100 mph slap shot. I fear not stopping it!

It doesn't matter how many times you get knocked down. The only thing that matters is how many times you get up.

Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.

He's one of the most coachable players out there.

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

Just charge me with the usual.

Women are playing [hockey] because they love it, not because they’re trying to be a woman in a man’s game.

People here want the team to win and to do well. The thing is, we know when to shoot the puck.

No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example.

It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.

Every boo on the road is a cheer.

I wouldn't urinate in his ear if his brain was on fire!

Sports like baseball, basketball, and hockey develop muscles. That's why Americans have the strongest eyes in the world.

On his attempt at the Edmonton Oilers empty net: I guess they respect my shot because they were all ready at the blue line.

When you stand on the victory stand, you must be able to ask yourself: 'Did I win this medal?'

The first thing I would do when I saw Bobby coming down at me was to say a little prayer if I had time. I'm sure I wasn't the only goalie who did that.

It's not who wins the fight that's important, it's being willing to fight. If you get challenged and renege, everyone wants to take a shot at you.

When no one else signs me.

The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom.

Heroes? Vietnam Vets are heroes. The guys who tried to rescuse our hostages in Iran are heroes. I'm just a hockey player.

Hockey is my life. I love every minute of it.

Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

When it comes to hockey, it's been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level.

It was probably the biggest accomplishment of my life.

Rocket had that mean look on, every game we played. He was 100 percent hockey. He could hate with the best of them.

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.

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids

It seems like we're doing just enough to lose by a little.

Not to mention our former tag team champions lost their titles after my good friend Christian was hit in the genitals with a hockey stick by a midgit! I mean enough is enough

We are the short of people that make health insurance popular.

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

Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.

He's the kind of guy who will stab you in the back right to your face.

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