This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf. — Lester B. Pearson
Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA. — Brett Hull
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set — Jimmy Cannon
Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game. — Chico Resch
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. — Wayne Gretzky
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
Hockey is an amazing sport and it has definitely had a positive impact on my life. But my dad always said school comes first, and if I didn't do well in school I didn't get to play hockey. — P. K. Subban
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
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've always had a passion for hockey, ... That's the key. You can't be putting in time. You have to enjoy doing what you do. — Sidney Crosby
Canadian hockey players always find a way to get along. — Carey Price
Short Hockey Fan Quotes
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. — Rodney Dangerfield
Hockey taught me to challenge myself and be the best I can be on and off the ice. — P. K. Subban
Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records. — Bob Plager
I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite. — Verne Troyer
Sports are my passion and I really enjoy connecting with others who share my love of the game — Tessa Bonhomme
I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey. — Jeremy London
It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team. — Guy Lafleur
I'm an everything Baltimore fan. — Josh Charles
Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor. — Fred Shero
I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy. — Emma Bunton
Hockey Fan Image Quotes
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
Sports Fan Quotes
Defensive and offensive lineman control the game and true sports fans know that. — Dante Hall
They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there. — Mike Schmidt
The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb. — Knute Rockne
Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn. — Pat Dye
Great moments are born from great opportunities. — Herb Brooks
It's not like I'm going to go out and change the world and convert everyone into MMA fans. There's going to be fans out there who are fans of combat sports and fans of contact sports but not everybody's going to be converted. — Dana White
Love your haters,theyre your biggest fans.
The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series. — Tommy Lasorda
I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation. — Bob Devaney
I believe almost any sports fan would purchase a club, if they had the means. — John W. Henry
I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan — Judd Nelson
Hockey Player 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
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
Set your Life on Fire. Seek those who Fan your Flames
We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital. — Brad Park
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
You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone. — Herb Brooks
I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.
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
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
Hockey Team Quotes
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
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
Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental. — Jim McKenny
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
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.
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
Hockey Coach Quotes
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
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
Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball. — Phil Jackson
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
A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another. — Jimmy Cannon
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
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
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
I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice. — Steve Martin
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
Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos. — Don Kardong
Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice. — Faina Ranevskaya
Great Hockey Quotes
When I look at the net I don't see a goalie. — Pavel Bure
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
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
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
Football Fan Quotes
It would've cost less, and left the previous owners with nothing, to go into liquidation. But it would also be humiliating for Celtic. So we paid all the bills. Celtic means the same to me as it does to other fans. I identify with the club and wish to be proud of it. — Fergus McCann
Fans have a constitutional right to expect success and have high expectations. — Jim Harbaugh
Football is one of the world's best means of communication. It is impartial, apolitical and universal. Football unites people around the world every day. Young or old, players or fans, rich or poor, the game makes everyone equal, stirs the imagination, makes people happy and makes them sad — Franz Beckenbauer
In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves. — Bill Shankly
My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He's inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination - but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field. — Snoop Dogg
At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks. — Bill Shankly
I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game. — Bear Bryant
Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common. — Hunter S. Thompson
So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan. — Lisa Guerrero
Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them. — Wayne Gretzky
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
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
He brings something special. I don't know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn't understand his answer. — Wayne Gretzky
The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck. — Andre Dawson
We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our industry for their livelihoods. — Gary Bettman
We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust. — Steven Pinker
I'm obsessed with hockey and my son's a big player. I spend a lot of time driving to the ice rink and I'm a huge Los Angeles Kings fan. So, yeah, I'm a hockey mama - a cool hockey mama. — Amber Valletta
I was always interested in sport. My family are big sports' fans. We always had all the locals round watching big sporting events. I wasn't particularly sporty myself. I played a lot of hockey and rode, still do ride, but I just had a general interest in it. When I was given the opportunity to do sport stories I used to grab them. — Jill Douglas
Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey - let's face it, true Canadian - fan. I've always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I'm not crazy about hockey - but love it! — Sayings
We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them.They have to understand that it's totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts. — Jaromir Jagr
My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good. — Gary Bettman
I knew nothing about hockey when I came to Chicago and then became the biggest fan - went to every playoff game. — Christian Madsen
My grandmother was from Guelph, Ont. I grew up playing ice hockey, I'm a massive fan. A great-uncle who was in the early days of the NHL played for the Chicago Blackhawks. — Don Winslow
I grew up such a fan. It was my life. Everything I did was hockey related and everything I have is because of hockey and the NHL. — Wayne Gretzky
I love to play hockey. I'm a huge hockey fan and I love to play as well. — Sterling Beaumon
Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess. — Louis Dudek
Its an honor to be chosen to represent the best hockey game in the world,... Hockey fans are looking for the most authentic experience and NHL 2K6 delivers it. — Brian Boitano
Most fans go wild when they see a goalie make what looks like a great save, but the chances are what they are seeing is a save that was made from being out of position. — Mike Richter
... I just want to remind the owners and the players: you guys make money because you have a whole bunch of fans out there who are working really hard. They buy tickets. They're watching on TV. Ya'll should be able to figure this out. Get this done. — Barack Obama
It's always good to have the building filled - even if it's with low-IQ Rangers fans. — Mike Milbury
These are tough games to play. We shared the puck and we wanted everyone to get a chance to score. Tough games to play in. We want close games. That is why we train so hard. We want to show our fans some even games. — Caroline Ouellette
I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place. — Ryan Reynolds
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