Hockey taught me to challenge myself and be the best I can be on and off the ice. — P. K. Subban
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
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. — Wayne Gretzky
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
Every day is a great day for hockey. — Mario Lemeiux
This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf. — Lester B. Pearson
Canadian hockey players always find a way to get along. — Carey Price
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
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
People would say, 'Girls don't play hockey. Girls don't skate.' I would say, 'Watch this.' — Hayley Wickenheiser
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
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
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. — Wayne Gretzky
Short Inspirational Hockey Quotes
Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game. — Chico Resch
Great moments are born from great opportunities. — Herb Brooks
The game honors toughness — Brad Stevens
It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team. — Guy Lafleur
Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records. — Bob Plager
Your best players have to unite and inspire the group... otherwise, they'll divide the group — Jeff Van Gundy
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. — Rodney Dangerfield
Inspirational Hockey Image Quotes
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
Great Hockey Quotes
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
Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.
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
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
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
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
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
Good Hockey Quotes
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
Everything was set for us to play a real good game. Then we left the dressing room and everything went to hell. — Curt Fraser
Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball. — Phil Jackson
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
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
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
Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA. — Brett Hull
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
People here want the team to win and to do well. The thing is, we know when to shoot the puck. — Steve Yzerman
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
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
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
Hockey Coach Quotes
Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor. — Fred Shero
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
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
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
Inspirational Winning Quotes
Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide! — Swami Vivekananda
You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better. — Steffi Graf
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying. — Tony Robbins
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. — John C. Maxwell
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight. — George S. Patton
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed. — Hudson Taylor
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. — Serena Williams
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you. — Joyce Meyer
If we dare to win, we should also dare to lose — Lee Chong Wei
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
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
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
There's no reason why a player is done at 33, 34. They train better, they eat better, they drink better. This isn't the old days when everybody sat around and drank beer. — Bobby Clarke
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. — Gordie Howe
I know my players don't like my practices, but that's OK because I don't like their games. — Harry Neale
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
Inspiring Football Quotes
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. — Ralph Marston
There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true. — Neymar
God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it. — Ronaldinho
Don't pursue a heart that you're not ready to be loyal to. — Trent Shelton
A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to. — Tom Landry
Your love makes me strong, Your hate makes me unstoppable. — Cristiano Ronaldo
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence. — Tom Landry
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise. — Lou Holtz
Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to. — Henry Van Dyke
Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day. — Ray Lewis
Inspirational Softball Quotes
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali
A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down. — Mia Hamm
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
A lot of people notice when you succeed, but they don't see what it takes to get there. — Dawn Staley
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost. — George P. Shultz
Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today. — Dwight Howard
Being together on the field as a group, operating as a team, making important plays is a great thing. — Ellyse Perry
It's not where you start but where you finish. — April Heinrichs
I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads. — Cassandra Wilson
What I love about the game is that the game doesn't know who is supposed to win. — Sue Enquist
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
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
Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win. — Brett Hull
Put the kids in with a few old pappy guys who still like to win and the combination is unbeatable. — Conn Smythe
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
I mean, the best thing for my knee, for anyone's knee, is to never play again and retire. But I'm not going to do that. — Steve Yzerman
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
The goalie is like the guy on the minefield. He discovers the mines and destroys them. If you make a mistake, somebody gets blown up. — Arturs Irbe
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
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. — Wayne Gretzky
We need to look at what Europe is doing to get better and try to get better ourselves. We need to make some changes and that can only be good for the game. Tolstoy once said, 'Everybody wants to change the world, but they don't want to change themselves.' So we all have to change our thinking and focus on getting our kids better. — Herb Brooks
In a weird way, [hockey] is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one. — Michael Vartan
There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending. — Vladislav Tretiak
... 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
None of us is as smart as all of us. — Ken Blanchard
I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward. — Emma Watson
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