Hockey Quotes

Goaltending is to hockey like putting is to golf. It really has no relationship to the rest of the game.

It's odd, that's why I don't like telling people I played field hockey. It's real big in Australia for guys. But I say I played in America, and everybody goes, 'Oh, you girl!'

He was yelling pretty urgently. There's different pitches of yell and he was screaming.

You can't just go outside and play hockey. It's more of an expensive sport.

Coaches are like ducks. Calm on top, but paddling underneath. Believe me, there's a lot of leg movement.

If I'd known it was going to take 25 years, I'd have started earlier.

Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be.

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.

Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.

I don't like being mediocre. I won't be.

Hopefully someone on their team addresses it, because, uh, I'm not saying I'm going to do it, but something might happen to him if he continues to be that cocky.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

He's as old as some trees.

To a reporter after Ray was pounded by Edmonton's Georges Laraque: What are you, the fight doctor now or something? You've never been in a fight in your life, so what are you talking about?

Doing a good impression of a backup goalie the last few weeks.

It was a fun ride. I've enjoyed my time on the ice and I've enjoyed more and more people getting interested in the game of hockey.

Baseball can have its perfect dimensions, its undeniable drama, but hockey, for all its wrongs, still has the potential to deliver a momentary, flashing magic that is found in no other game we play.

We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.

Why doesn’t the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?

I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.

We've played with a lot of confidence and that's been the key so far. Hopefully, we can take more confidence into the playoffs.

Wild Thing made their hearts sing. But he couldn't top everything.

The day they put me in net I had a good game. I've stayed there ever since.

You've got to go to the net if you want to score.

I love everything about hockey.

I can't remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in baseball now than they do in hockey.

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

Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.

I coach hockey players—some of them just happen to be girls. When I’m coaching youth hockey, I put the boys and girls together and they can’t tell the difference. They are just playing hockey.

Girls, where are you? I can't find you.

We're going to be the best in the league at something. We're deep in anthem singers.

I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work.

Basically, I don't like anybody.

We talk about mental toughness all the time. That's the biggest thing good teams have, that they can overcome adversity.

Usually, I'm on the bus by now, having a beer and waiting for everyone else. This is cutting into my beer time.

You want it? Work for it.

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.

A complacent player is a lazy player, and a lazy player is a loser.

It really helps to take a breath and think about what you really want to do out there.

Hockey's my favorite sport.

It only hurt once, from beginning to end.

When Bobby came into the league he was a rushing defenseman, a goal scorer and a point getter. He just opened the game up to more offence and that's the way the game is played now.

They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building them.

In the playoffs will beats skill.

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

He's skating like he's 36 again.

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

I can't control what people say or anything like that. I have to focus on what I can control and that's what I'm going to do.

I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.