Hockey Quotes

People would say, 'Girls don't play hockey. Girls don't skate.' I would say, 'Watch this.'

The kids just aren't the same today.

Oh, yes, I love sleepless nights.

I just made up my mind that I was going to lose my teeth and have my face cut to pieces.

I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.

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

A player must be able to skate, have hockey sense, be able to shoot, but not necessarily be able to score.

Forget about style; worry about results.

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

Since the beginning, I always loved the game.

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

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

Man is that guy ripped. I mean, I've got the washboard stomach, too. It's just that mine has about two months of laundry on top of it.

He's a gritty hockey player, he's got good vision, he's an intelligent player.

Monogamous musicians are like vegan hockey players.

I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.

I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.

I find that I've tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the same time, I've also made it a point to increase or grow in some other area of my life. If I were just playing hockey, I would probably be done with the sport.

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.

If I weren't acting, I think I'd want to be a professional hockey player.

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

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

If I can be half the hockey player that Bobby Orr was, I'll be happy.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

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.

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet.

I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better.

I love to play hockey. I'm a huge hockey fan and I love to play as well.

Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them.

Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor.

We've [me and brother] been playing hockey for a long time, since we were little kids. I started playing hockey at two and a half. Obviously, playing hockey we want to be known as good hockey players and hard working guys that earn everything they get.

It's been a good hockey life for me anyway.

I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.

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.

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

Hockey is a tough game. With all the talk and everything that's going on right now, it frightens me a little bit that we are giving our players an excuse not to hit. I just hope that we don't take that out of our game at the pro level.

If they can play eight more years, then I can too. I'm in better shape than they are.

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.

People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.

Chunking makes our brains more efficient. The more you can chunk something, the faster and easier you can process it. Wayne Gretzky had chunked hockey like no one before or since. Talented people have supremely chunked whatever they become talented at doing.

We don't care what that bug-eyed fat walrus has to say.

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 somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.

I was 13 or 14 and I met Donald Trump at a bar mitzvah of a good friend of ours, who's friends with him. He had his girlfriend at the time with him, that Melania with him. He said, 'Hey guys, if you work hard and be successful, you'll get one of these.' I'll never forget that. And now he's married to her.

There are two types of forwards. Scorers and bangers. Scorers score and bangers bang.

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

In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are seen, worldwide, as an enormously competitive, enthusiastic people who work as hard as we play and play as hard as we work. When baseball - which has traditionally canceled one day of games for huge national celebrations or disasters - stops play for six days, that has reverberations in the national consciousness.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.