Greatest Hockey Quotes

Orr is the greatest young hockey player that's come along since I've been here.

Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person.

The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.

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.

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

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.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.