You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists. — Wayne Gretzky
We can no longer ignore the stupidity of the hits that are still happening today despite the fact that the players know the concussion aspect is such a big part of the game and sports in general. — Jeremy Roenick
Every time you sustain a head injury, the risk gets higher and higher. I always said that if there ever was a point where the risk was more than minimal, I would stop playing. — Pat LaFontaine
What scares me is how easily it happened. — Mark Recchi
Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings. — Steve Yzerman
It didn't feel like it was anything too major, but if you had to look at one hit that would be it. — Sidney Crosby
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
Short Nhl Quotes
I might have practiced stick-handling with my head up a bit more. — Eric Lindros
I've been fortunate. I've had no residual effects whatsoever. I got out just in time. — Pat LaFontaine
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
This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided. — Gary Bettman
There are two types of forwards. Scorers and bangers. Scorers score and bangers bang. — Ken Dryden
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'm not dumb enough to be a goalie. — Brett Hull
Nhl Image Quotes
Nhl Lockout Quotes
The hockey lockout of 1994 - 1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering... and can now get down to some serious bloodshed! — Conan O'Brien
At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened. — Wayne Gretzky
This is a tragedy for the players. Their careers are short and this is money and opportunity they'll never get back. — Gary Bettman
I think the deal is not great for the players. It is definitely an owner-friendly deal. — Jeremy Roenick
When emotions are high, things are said, things are done. Ultimately, these players want to play. I know too many of them love the game too much. — Wayne Gretzky
It was the kind of light blow that is exchanged without notice or consequence hundreds of times in a game. — Ken Dryden
My first season Butch Bouchard accidentally sent me to the hospital for three days with a concussion, but I never backed away from Butch or anyone else after I came back. — Ted Lindsay
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 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
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
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. — Winston Bennett
You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone. — 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
I just tape four Tylenols to it. — Boris Mironov
Everything was set for us to play a real good game. Then we left the dressing room and everything went to hell. — Curt Fraser
I can't wait for the crowd, the noise, the energy in the building. I can't wait to take that all away from them. — P. K. Subban
The goal is too small and the goalies are too big. — Scotty Bowman
Right now I'm scoring goals and I'm the king of the world. And a couple weeks ago I was almost in the toilet. So maybe you just forget to flush me. — Alexander Ovechkin
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
OK, they fire the puck from the blue line. Chief usually yelling 'block the shot' at the defensemen. They doesn't have the goalie gear, but they have to block the shot. So who is more crazy, me or the defensemen? Who is more weird? — Ilya Bryzgalov
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
Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor. — Fred Shero
How would you like it if, at your job, every time you made the slightest mistake a little red light went on over your head and 18,000 people stood up and screamed at you? — Jacques Plante
I am who I am. Life is too beautiful to be sad, to be depressed. The sun comes up every day and it's beautiful. — Ilya Bryzgalov
I have been practising since I was 4 or 5 years old, but that wasn't really practice. I was just having fun.... I just loved to play hockey. — Sidney Crosby
My teeth weren't that good to begin with, so hopefully I can get some better ones. — Duncan Keith
Every time I see you naked, I feel sorry for your wife. — Jaromir Jagr
If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, does that make you brave? No, I think that makes you stupid. I will never play without the mask again. — Jacques Plante
We don't care what that bug-eyed fat walrus has to say. — Brandon Prust
We have to get families back in the game, get back where Saturday night, everything stops. A case of beer comes out and a bottle of rye and anyone who comes to the house, they better want to watch hockey. — Bobby Hull
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