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I want to reward this city. Pittsburgh is a great hockey town.
Sep 17, 2025
Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud.
Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.
He brings something special. I don't know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn't understand his answer.
It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.
When I look at the net I don't see a goalie.
Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.
Playing goal is like being shot at.
It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.
Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself.
If you've only got one day to live, come see the Toronto Maple Leafs. It'll seem like forever.
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.
A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.
Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.
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.
High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating.
I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.
My teeth weren't that good to begin with, so hopefully I can get some better ones.
How would you like a job where, if you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?
Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all, it keeps them off the street.
You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone.
Great moments are born from great opportunities.
Every day is a great day for hockey.
Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental.
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person.
One of the key qualities that you need to be a great hockey player is fantastic anticipation and feel for the game - if you know where the puck is going before it is hit, that is half the battle.
The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.
It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.
Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.
Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.
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