Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. — Voltaire
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare
My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference. — Harry S. Truman
I have both Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as my idols. If I can take a little of each player's game and make it my own, I would be very happy. — Neymar
It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain. — Ian Rush
I have never been concerned about winning the Ballon d'Or or being the best player in the world. The best player is already here and that's Messi. And now I can see him from close up and help him. — Neymar
If I had to choose between dribbling past 5 players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging miss world, it'd be a hard choice. Thankfully, i've done both — George Best
If we dare to win, we should also dare to lose — Lee Chong Wei
Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion. — Jimi Hendrix
I instruct you to be the obeyer,
A rhythm recipe that you'll savor,
Doesn't matter if you're minor or major,
Yes, the Tribe of the game, rhythm player,
As you inhale like a breath of fresh air — Phife Dawg
Short Players Quotes
What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs. — Harry Caray
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman
God is a snooker player, that's why all the planets are turning! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes. — Russell Westbrook
I can't make every decision for you. I don't have 14 timeouts. You guys got to get together and talk — Gregg Popovich
It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners. — Roberto Baggio
One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role — Scottie Pippen
Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then I was young, eight or nine years, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.
Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part. — Casey Stengel
The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player. — Bruce Coslet
If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!! — Michael Jordan
If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to! — Jeff Van Gundy
When you play, never mind who listens to you. — Robert Schumann
My foot, for a football player, is very beautiful! — Neymar
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page. — Bill Walton
Ice Hockey Player Quotes
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
A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another. — Jimmy Cannon
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
Good Hockey Player Quotes
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. — Wayne Gretzky
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 watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players. — Ted Lindsay
PLANNING VS REACTING: How organized are you? Could your life be called a ballet or is it a hockey game (or a pin-ball machine)? However, even in a hockey game, good hockey player learn to skate to where the puck WILL BE. — Unknown
We've [me and brother] been playing hockey for a long time, since we were little kids. I started playing hockey at two and a half. Obviously, playing hockey we want to be known as good hockey players and hard working guys that earn everything they get. — P. K. Subban
Without the support of my mom, Marlene, I would not be the person I am. She has been my main supporter throughout my career, and I owe everything to her. This is a small way that we, as players, can pay tribute to her and other hockey moms, and it is all for a good cause. — Sean Avery
Luc Robitaille is a great kid and good player, but ask anybody on the street and they'd probably think Luc Robitaille is a type of salad dressing. — Bruce McNall
He's a gritty hockey player, he's got good vision, he's an intelligent player. — John Muckler
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
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
Great moments are born from great opportunities. — Herb Brooks
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
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
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
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 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
You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone. — 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
Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball. — Phil Jackson
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
The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward. — Terry Crisp
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
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
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
The name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back. — 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
Hockey Fan Quotes
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
Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them. — Wayne Gretzky
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.
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
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
Great Hockey Quotes
Every day is a great day for hockey. — Mario Lemeiux
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
People would say, 'Girls don't play hockey. Girls don't skate.' I would say, 'Watch this.' — Hayley Wickenheiser
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
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
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
Hockey Sticks Quotes
I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you. — Wayne Gretzky
Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match. — Stan Mikita
It's lacrosse that helped teach me to spin off checks, take shots and protect the puck under pressure. My stick skills, the way to read the play quickly comes from lacrosse. The hand-eye coordination, is just one of the little things that helps you in hockey. — John Tavares
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
If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl. — Pat Burns
I'm hoping for a bench clearing brawl during the warm up so I can go out and grab his stick. — Ron Tugnutt
I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available. — Merlin Olsen
They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building them. — Johnny Carson
It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet. — Jimmy Connors
I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too! — Nancy Kerrigan
Baseball Player Quotes
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens. — Tommy Lasorda
No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference. — Tommy Lasorda
I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back. — Ben Chandler
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. — Red Smith
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 greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game. — Chuck Tanner
Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. — Joe Schultz
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? — Jim Bouton
I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw. — Willie Mays
Jimmy Page is an excellent producer. Led Zeppelin I and II are classics. As a player he's very good in the studio, but I've never seen him play well live. He's sloppy. He plays like he's got a broken hand and he's two years old. If you put out a good album and play like a two year old, what's the purpose? — Eddie Van Halen
There are players that try to imitate others, but at free-kick time it is a personal thing. Every person has their own technique and routine when they stand over the ball and I have mine, I am not trying to copy anyone. — Neymar
A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders. — Pele
In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Life isn’t a music player where you choose whats being played, it is a radio where you have to enjoy whats being played. — Zayn Malik
Great teams are not made up of many well-rounded players. Great teams are made up of a variety of players, each having their own strengths. — Pele
Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me? — Lou Holtz
You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player. — Jose Raul Capablanca
The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that. — Chance the Rapper
There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not. — Harry Vardon
Take off all the masks, manners, fancy clothes, all the devices you use, and be the most honest person you can be with yourself. Then, whatever love you get then is real. All the false approaches, like trying to be a player, only bring false results. — Jacque Fresco
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
EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world. — Claudio Reyna
All that God is, and all that God has, are at the disposal of player. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do anything, prayer is omnipotent. — R. A. Torrey
I used to play golf. I wanted to be a better player, but after a while I realized I'd always stink. And that's when I really started to enjoy the game. — Don Rickles
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