Hockey Quotes

Hockey is its own game. It's completely different than all the other games, although it's getting way too close to soccer.

I think the game has gotten better. (The two-ref system) keeps players from taking cheap shots behind the play. I never thought I'd like it, considering the way I like to hack.

We're right next to Mile High Stadium. I'm no rocket scientist, but...uh...(smile).

There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.

Hockey is not a sport - it's a disease.

I always played hockey, I was always a hockey fan, but I was never bitten by the hockey bug... I never looked into playing it professionally.

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

I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie.

The hockey lockout of 1994 - 1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering... and can now get down to some serious bloodshed!

I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'

At the end of each year I make a list of my mistakes and it's pretty friggin long.

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

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

Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.

They were checking us so closely, I could tell what brand of deodorant they were using.

Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon.

Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.

You can have all the talent in the world, but if the pumper's not there, it doesn't matter.

The kid looks good in his first game.

Play every game as if it's your last one

Aw, don't worry about that Doc. If it happens I could always come back as a forward.

Our system of forechecking is to shoot the puck and leave it there.

Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

Old people, don't watch it because you might die just watching it.

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

I grabbed it and squeezed it back into place. It gave a little crunch and popped right in.

The only difference between the Coyotes and 'Days of Our Lives' is that nobody has been shot on our team yet.

You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.

Hockey has given me everything, most importantly it brought me to Swift Current, where I met my wife Deb.

When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.

To his US Olympic team - Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow.

Wayne came over to the bench one day after seeing (Zdeno) Chara, and said 'That's why I'm quitting.'

Because he stinks on the power play. He stinks. I don't know why. I wish I could put him on the power play, but every time I put him on, he stinks.

Yes, and I also like jumping out of tall buildings.

I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.

And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

If he had another hair on his back, he'd be up a tree.

All that means is that I'll be 783 years old when I catch Scotty Bowman.

You try to squeeze a little more Charmin in the pads when you face him.

On his contract negotiations with the Devils: It's beyond money at this point. They're not even treating him as a member of their family, unless it's a dysfunctional family.

Oh, yes, I love sleepless nights.

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

Call them pros, call them mercenaries - but in fact they are just grown - up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or flooded corner lot that hockey is the greatest thrill of all.

Ever since he's been a little boo-aw.

Of course, my family has been a big reason for me to come back, especially my son who loves the game of hockey - he was a big reason for me coming back.

Biologically, I'm 10. Chronologically, I'm 33. In hockey years, I'm 66.

I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey.