High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating. — Scotty Bowman
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
Hockey taught me to challenge myself and be the best I can be on and off the ice. — P. K. Subban
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. — Wayne Gretzky
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
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
Canadian hockey players always find a way to get along. — Carey Price
Every day is a great day for hockey. — Mario Lemeiux
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 players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records. — Bob Plager
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
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. — Rodney Dangerfield
Short Ice Hockey Quotes
I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey. — Jeremy London
Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor. — Fred Shero
Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA. — Brett Hull
Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport. — Katarina Witt
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. — Wayne Gretzky
People would say, 'Girls don't play hockey. Girls don't skate.' I would say, 'Watch this.' — Hayley Wickenheiser
The goal is too small and the goalies are too big. — Scotty Bowman
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score. — Bobby Hull
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 Image Quotes
Inspirational Ice Hockey Quotes
Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental. — Jim McKenny
A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another. — Jimmy Cannon
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 also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey. — Steven Chu
Ice Hockey Player Quotes
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
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. — Andy Rooney
I have six brothers and one sister. I grew up playing ice hockey, a total tomboy, and that’s what I thought I was going to do – be an ice hockey player. — Nicola Peltz
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
The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing. — Shawn Mendes
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. — Gerad Adams
Personally I don't believe in standing on the ice, or jamming the blueline, waiting. I have always told my players that hockey has to be played on your toes. — Bob Hartley
The great thing about hockey players is that they are able to separate the on-ice from the off-ice and not let the latter distract them. — Stu Grimson
Hockey Quotes
You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists. — 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
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
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
You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential. — Bobby Orr
Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time. — Kate Smith
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
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
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
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
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 Team Quotes
Great moments are born from great opportunities. — Herb Brooks
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
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
People here want the team to win and to do well. The thing is, we know when to shoot the puck. — Steve Yzerman
Usually when you play a team, you want to focus on one line. Pittsburgh is the only team where you have to focus on one player [Mario Lemieux]. When he's coming toward you, all you see is him. — Patrick Roy
Ice Skating Quotes
Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics. — Marvin Olasky
I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance. — Kenny Baker
Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself. — Scott Hamilton
Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks. — Michelle Trachtenberg
I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards. — Dorothy Hamill
Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast. — Pete Domenici
Literally falling on the ice and having to pick yourself up in front of thousands of people is not an easy thing to do. The thing that you learn is to pick yourself back up, to learn from your mistakes. — Michelle Kwan
It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate. — Dorothy Parker
Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis. — Zygmunt Bauman
Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had. — Robin Cousins
Great Hockey Quotes
When I look at the net I don't see a goalie. — Pavel Bure
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
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
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
Hockey Coach Quotes
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
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
Good Hockey Quotes
Everything was set for us to play a real good game. Then we left the dressing room and everything went to hell. — Curt Fraser
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
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
I say no words... I can't speak with him. I shy. He too good. — Pavel Datsyuk
Not to mention our former tag team champions lost their titles after my good friend Christian was hit in the genitals with a hockey stick by a midgit! I mean enough is enough — Kurt Angle
When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collecting or gardening. But when people discover they are no good at picking stocks, they are likely to continue to do it anyway. — Peter Lynch
You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective. — Guy Lafleur
When I'm able to see the ice ahead of time when I get the puck, I'm able to make some pretty good plays. — Mario Lemieux
I don't like hockey. I'm just good at it. — Brett Hull
Inspirational Hockey Quotes
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
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
Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them. — Wayne Gretzky
What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred. — Herb Brooks
Do everything you need to do to keep the passion alive and never forget that it is a privilege to do what you love. — Martin Brodeur
Risk something or forever sit with your dreams. — Herb Brooks
Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport - or into any job for that matter - you won't succeed. — Phil Esposito
Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room mansion with the live shark tank in the living room. If pro sports paid minimum wage, Shaquille O'Neal would be a bouncer at Scores, and Anna Kournikova would be a mail-order bride from Minsk. — Bill Maher
If you want something as bad as you want to breathe, then you can do it. — Tyler Seguin
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
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
I just made up my mind that I was going to lose my teeth and have my face cut to pieces. — Johnny Bower
My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left! — Ginger Rogers
Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice. — Ethel Merman
My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars. — Bobby Hull
Most kids start playing hockey at the age of five, I was an earlier bloomer. My parents laced up my first pair of skates and put me on the ice at the young age of 2 ½, basically right after I mastered walking. — P. K. Subban
It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream. — Heston Blumenthal
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. — Grant Fuhr
When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick. — Steve Yzerman
Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud. — Jimmy Cannon
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. — Ron Francis
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. — Ty Simpkins
My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters! — Norm MacDonald
You can't control the opposition, but you can control how you play, your energy level, your intensity on the ice. That's what we're going to do. — Alain Vigneault
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