Ice Hockey Quotes

You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.

When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.

It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.

My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.

I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

I don't like hockey. I'm just good at it.

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

I had all my own teeth and I wanted to keep it that way.

If I get run into again, I'm taking someone with me. I lost one knee. I'll take a head if it happens again.

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

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

He had better get married soon, because he's getting uglier every day!

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'd be lying to you if I said guys weren't afraid of him. I'm afraid of him, afraid of him running in to me.

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

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

They do a lot of talking, but I'm not sure they actually understand each other.

For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.

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.

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.

I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.

Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way.

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.

If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

Each team has a net liner, a goalie, and five attackers. We have two defenders on the ice and three forwards. Our forwards are left winger, centre man and a right winger. We work as units of five. In ice hockey you go out and you go as hard as you can for 35 to 45 seconds, then we change.

I tried to talk my daughter out of going with a hockey player but, he's a good kid. He asked me if he could marry Carrie before he asked her. I said: You want to what? I thought he was just going to ask for more ice time.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it - I wanted to be on Broadway.

I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.

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

Is hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the stamina of a marathon runner, and the concentration of a brain surgeon. But we need to put all this together while moving at high speeds on a cold and slippery surface while 5 other guys use clubs to try and kill us. Oh yeah, did I mention that this whole time we're standing on blades 1/8 of an inch thick? Is ice hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. Next question.

How would you like a job where, if you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

A good ice hockey player is someone who has good communication skills, is willing to listen and willing to try new things. It's a very technical game and not that easy to pick up. It's a lot of fun but you just have to be patient.

How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.

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

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

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

People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles.

I'm always working out; I did ice hockey in high school, but I'm not a dance person. I mean, this was horrible, but I had a dance double in my high-school musical.

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.

It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.

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.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, "You can like Mozart and ice hockey..." - and then I used to say "golf," but Tiger took over golf! - "and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades."