A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. — Wayne Gretzky
You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential. — Bobby Orr
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. — Phil Esposito
Silence is a source of great strength.
Everything was set for us to play a real good game. Then we left the dressing room and everything went to hell. — Curt Fraser
My recruiting key - I looked for PEOPLE first, athletes second. I wanted people with a sound value system as you cannot buy values. You're only as good as your values. I learned early on that you do not put greatness into people...but somehow try to pull it out. — Herb Brooks
Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball. — Phil Jackson
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
You guys just here to blame someone. You never look yourselves in the mirror, eh? You're always good. You never make the mistakes. Your articles are always perfect. In reality, what have you done for this city? If you ask yourself, what have you done besides only criticize? Not much. — Ilya Bryzgalov
My teeth weren't that good to begin with, so hopefully I can get some better ones. — Duncan Keith
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. — Mario Lemieux
Milt was one of the men who discovered Bobby Orr. He once said that if a player comes along who is better then Bobby Orr, may the Good Lord let me be alive to see him because he is going to be one hell of a player to watch. Enough said. — Milt Schmidt
Inspirational Hockey Quotes
Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher. — Herb Brooks
When you pull on that jersey, you represent yourself and your teammates, and the name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back. Get that through your head! — Herb Brooks
I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching. — Patrick Roy
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
Great moments are born from great opportunities. — Herb Brooks
You've just got to go out there and try to control the things you can control. Deal with things and stay mentally strong. — Jonathan Toews
We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games. — Fred Shero
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
You win with people, not with talent. So the quality of the people is very important in building your team. I always looked for people with a solid value system. Then I recruited kids from a cross-section of different personalities, talents and styles of play. — Herb Brooks
People would say, 'Girls don't play hockey. Girls don't skate.' I would say, 'Watch this.' — Hayley Wickenheiser
Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them. — Wayne Gretzky
We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital. — Brad Park
Ice Hockey Quotes
It's changed throughout the years, but at one time I was a really big bubble gum ice cream fan. I'd spit the bubble gum pieces in a cup and then collect them. — Timothy Olyphant
Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way. — Todd Bridges
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. — Ella Maillart
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time. — Kate Smith
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. — Robert T. Bakker
There are two types of forwards. Scorers and bangers. Scorers score and bangers bang. — Ken Dryden
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice. — Steve Martin
Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental. — Jim McKenny
Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game. — Chico Resch
I was three-quarters down the list of guys I would be facing in my first game when I realized I was looking at our own roster. — Glenn Healy
Hockey Team Quotes
You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations. — Joe Sakic
This is your time. Their time is done. It's over. I'm sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw 'em. This is your time. Now go out there and take it! — Herb Brooks
High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating. — Scotty Bowman
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA. — Brett Hull
Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records. — Bob Plager
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. — Steve Rushin
To a great mind, nothing is little.
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. — Stephen Leacock
I started as a fourth-line fighter, went to being a third-line centre, then a second-line winger and a first-line centre. I've played every role there is, and the only thing that matters is helping the team win. — Mark Messier
Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet. — Paul Gallico
I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool. — Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Hockey Quotes
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. — Tiger Woods
You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists. — Wayne Gretzky
I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey. — Jeremy London
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. — Mario Lemieux
Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.
Goals live on the other side of obstacles and challenges. Be relentless in pursuit of those goals, especially in the face of obstacles. Along the way, make no excuses and place no blame. — Ray Bourque
The name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back. — Herb Brooks
Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work. — Jean Beliveau
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. — Rodney Dangerfield
Hockey Player Quotes
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain. — Pierre Trudeau
The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique. — Saku Koivu
You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. — Junior Seau
Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone. — Herb Brooks
Whether youre trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, Ive always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether its as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that. — Sidney Crosby
Canadian hockey players always find a way to get along. — Carey Price
No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.
For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player. — Mario Lemeiux
There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty. — Stan Mikita
There is something about Game 7 that there's a memory there for you for sure. You want to be a coach or a manager or a player or a goaltender that gets it done, because to me, that's all part of sports. That's what you dream about when you're a little kid - scoring the winning goal. — Mike Babcock
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. — Wayne Gretzky
Hockey Fan Quotes
Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor. — Fred Shero
In the old days, that was my ad-lib for hecklers in the joints I worked. It stuck with me. I hardly say it now, say, to fans, even though people do send me hockey pucks. — Don Rickles
How would you like a job where, if you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo? — Jacques Plante
A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another. — Jimmy Cannon
Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners. — Robert Orben
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. — Steve Rushin
Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all, it keeps them off the street. — Gus Kyle
Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept. — Doug Larson
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. — Chris Jericho
Ranger fans are the rudest and they're proud of it, I'm sure. — Byron Dafoe
Hockey Coach Quotes
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. — Paul Coffey
I slept like a baby. Every two hours, I woke up and cried. — Tom McVie
Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids — Bobby Hull
It's not who wins the fight that's important, it's being willing to fight. If you get challenged and renege, everyone wants to take a shot at you. — Barclay Plager
The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward. — Terry Crisp
Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person. — Jeremy Roenick
I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire. — Bobby Hull
When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL. Now it's kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can't be a good coach because I was a great athlete. — Wayne Gretzky
That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my (expletive) clothes. — Stu Grimson
When we've got the puck, they can't score. — Paul Coffey
More Great Hockey Quotes
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. — Wayne Gretzky
Great moments are born from great opportunities. — Herb Brooks
Every day is a great day for hockey. — Mario Lemeiux
This is your time. Their time is done. It's over. I'm sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw 'em. This is your time. Now go out there and take it! — Herb Brooks
High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating. — Scotty Bowman
When I look at the net I don't see a goalie. — Pavel Bure
We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital. — Brad Park
Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental. — Jim McKenny
Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game. — Chico Resch
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. — Chris Chelios
Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records. — Bob Plager
You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone. — Herb Brooks
My recruiting key - I looked for PEOPLE first, athletes second. I wanted people with a sound value system as you cannot buy values. You're only as good as your values. I learned early on that you do not put greatness into people...but somehow try to pull it out. — Herb Brooks
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. — Paul Coffey
My teeth weren't that good to begin with, so hopefully I can get some better ones. — Duncan Keith
Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight. — Frank DeFord
After the hockey stick, Sardara Singh scores with the broom! A great effort by him towards a Swachh Bharat. — Narendra Modi
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. — Wayne Gretzky
The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem. — Harry Sinden
One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy. — George Vecsey
Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet. — Paul Gallico
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. — Jean de Gribaldy
We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff'. — Michael Morpurgo
Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person. — Jeremy Roenick
When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL. Now it's kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can't be a good coach because I was a great athlete. — Wayne Gretzky
Playing goal is like being shot at. — Jacques Plante
Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud. — Jimmy Cannon
Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all, it keeps them off the street. — Gus Kyle
Whether the guys are nervous or just had mental breakdowns, it happens. The game is a game of mistakes. And how you deal with them and correct them and all the things like that is what makes this game great and makes hockey the sport it is. — Chris Pronger
Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept. — Doug Larson
If you've only got one day to live, come see the Toronto Maple Leafs. It'll seem like forever. — Pat LaFontaine
Its a great day for hockey — Bob Johnson
Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford. — Jamie Farr
I think we've been through a lot this season and it will be nice to move on. It's one step at a time though. The focus of our hockey club was great. We really stuck to our game plan and didn't get too high or too low and we definitely didn't get over excited. — Martin Brodeur
When you take off that sweater, your jersey, after today's game, you will be the last player in the NHL to ever wear 99. You have always been and you will always be 'The Great One,' and there will never be another. — Gary Bettman
He brings something special. I don't know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn't understand his answer. — Wayne Gretzky
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. — Lester Patrick
It's definitely an honour and a dream to be able to go out there and have all the people in the stands cheering for you it's a great feeling and I cant wait to get the Olympics started. — Meghan Agosta-Marciano
In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There's a lot of great individual talent. — Kobe Bryant
We brought him [Raffi Torres] in because he was an emotional, physical player. He's had nothing but a great attitude and a great work ethic with us all year long. He comes to play, prepares himself real well. We need him to play the way he does. You know, he's a little bit sometimes outside the box, but you've got to let him be who he is. — Alain Vigneault
It's a great feeling, its something that I've dreamt about since I was little, and it's finally come true. It couldn't be better. Well I think that we stuck to the game plan. We got shots on net, and just used our power. — Rebecca Johnston
When you were a kid, if you went to the Montreal Forum or a hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens, which I did, there was a great feeling. The new stadiums don't have it. Why don't they have it? Building codes. — Frank Gehry
I want to reward this city. Pittsburgh is a great hockey town. — Sidney Crosby
They're happy to be Siamese twins. They feel blessed. But the rest of us have to go through the world alone. And they don't. And because they have this great attitude, they have a lot of friends. They were the kings of the prom. You know, they were in the state championship hockey team. You know, they're the goalie. And it's just they're a couple of winners who happen to be Siamese twins. — Peter Farrelly
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. — Darcy Tucker
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