I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams. — Mark Messier
This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf. — Lester B. Pearson
People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far. — Marcel Dionne
Every day is a great day for hockey. — Mario Lemeiux
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
Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings. — Steve Yzerman
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. — Rodney Dangerfield
Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this...skirmish. — Brian Regan
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. — Wayne Gretzky
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
Canadian hockey players always find a way to get along. — Carey Price
Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records. — Bob Plager
It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team. — Guy Lafleur
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
Short Stanley Cup Quotes
Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game. — Chico Resch
The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. — Mia Hamm
Hockey taught me to challenge myself and be the best I can be on and off the ice. — P. K. Subban
Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor. — Fred Shero
Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time. — Teddy Sheringham
Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score. — Bobby Hull
I don't just think regular season. I think playoffs. World Series. That's how I think. — Mariano Rivera
Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown. — Althea Gibson
I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy. — Emma Bunton
Stanley Cup Image Quotes
Like if like a cup of tea... it's all in how you make it.
Cupful Quotes
What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience. — Saint Francis de Sales
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. — Rick Warren
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put it in the teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.
I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all. — David Lynch
If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will go away. — Neem Karoli Baba
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. — Bruce Lee
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? — Albert Camus
A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more. — Jayne Mansfield
Eighty and six years have I served Christ, nor has He ever done me any harm. How, then, could I blaspheme my King who saved Me?....I bless Thee for deigning me worthy of this day and this hour that I may be among Thy martyrs and drink the cup of my Lord Jesus Christ. — Polycarp
Nothing seems tiresome or painful when you are working for a Master who pays well; who rewards even a cup of cold water given for love of Him. — Dominic Savio
I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup. Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He's my friend, I wish him the best — Neymar
Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Life is like a cup of tee, it's all about how you make it.
If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love. For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted. — Amy Carmichael
The beloved does not drink a single drop of water without seeing His Face in the cup. Allah is He Who flows between the pericardium and the heart, just as the tears flow from the eyelids. — Mansur Al-Hallaj
I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot. — Kobe Bryant
Handle your future with care. A full cup must be carried steadily.
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. — Virginia Woolf
My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms. — Dorothy Day
If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning. — Mae West
You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar. — Saint Francis de Sales
Stanley Quotes
Direction, not intention determines your destination. — Andy Stanley
I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch. — Ishmael Reed
He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played. — Mario Lemieux
An empty coffee cup is full of hope...
We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over. — Steve Yzerman
I didn't hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears. — Patrick Roy
I could not hear what they say about me, my 2 Stanley Cup rings were stuffed in my ears. — Patrick Roy
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list as an influence to my life at 11 years old. — Mike McCready
At the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals: Win today and we walk together forever. — Fred Shero
Do you think God can be trusted? Or do yo think you need to take things into your own hands? — Andy Stanley
Here in Denver, we want to thank Jeremy Jacobs for the way he runs his business. Otherwise, we wouldn't have gotten Ray Bourque and won a Stanley Cup. — Joe Sakic
Fill Your Cup Quotes
Fill the cup of happiness for others, and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim. — Rose Pastor Stokes
Christ took your cup of grief, your cup of the curse, pressed it to his lips, drank it to its dregs, then filled it with his sweet, pardoning, sympathizing love, and gave it back for you to drink, and to drink forever! — Octavius Winslow
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee! — Walter Scott
Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For the feed cost of your steak, each of their bowls could be filled with a cup pf cooked cereal grains. — Frances Moore Lappé
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality. — Bruce Lee
We all have to start with ourselves. It is time to walk the talk. Take the journey of making very difficult decisions. Start removing things from your life that are not filling your cup and adding things that bring joy in to your life. — Lisa Hammond
Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile. — Samuel Johnson
You have to fill your cup. You then give away the overflowing, but you keep a cupful for yourself. — Wynonna Judd
The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself. — Anne Lamott
When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again. — Sarah Addison Allen
I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome. — Ed Belfour
As long as I could remember, since I was 5 years old, I watched the Stanley Cup. I stayed up, made a point of watching it presented, watched the celebration in the locker room, and always dreamed that maybe I'd get there. — Steve Yzerman
One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy. — George Vecsey
I can't hear what Jeremy says because my ears are blocked with my two Stanley Cup Rings. — Patrick Roy
As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics. — Joe Sakic
Lifting the Stanley Cup for the first time. There's nothing like it. It's the greatest story. In my era, they used to say you couldn't be a superstar without winning one. I remember thinking when I lifted it: "Now they can't say that about me." — Wayne Gretzky
....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley Cup. — Daniel Goleman
You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective. — Guy Lafleur
We should've been better, more disciplined. We made untimely mistakes defensively, as a group. This is really humbling for us. After winning the Stanley Cup, we got brought back down to earth, hard. Maybe the humbling is good for us in the long run. — Steve Yzerman
It's just amazing how many companies suddenly want you to hold up their products after you've held up the Stanley Cup. — Wayne Gretzky
Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon. — Gene Hart
Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster. — Ted Lindsay
My only goal is to win the Stanley Cup and do what I have to to win that. — Jeremy Roenick
What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs. — Jack Adams
Individual records are nice to get, but before the season starts, you want to play to win the Stanley Cup! — Guy Lafleur
What I've learned so far from researching is that to win the Stanley Cup, you have to make the playoffs. — Ted Leonsis
As a sports fan, the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup makes me feel very alive. — Five for Fighting
My dad was so influential in my career. It was a fulfillment of every athlete's dream. I dreamed about it as a kid. We played hockey in the backyard. We had silver buckets we carried around like the Stanley Cup. It was everything that you would hope. — Matt Cullen
Winning the Stanley Cup in '99 was a dream come true. I'll never forget it. — Ed Belfour
Stanley Cup winners don’t hand back the Stanley Cup. — Rob Ford
Winning a Stanley Cup for Toronto, that's the biggest dream and the biggest goal. — Mats Sundin
I'd rather have a 16, as in Stanley Cup playoff wins. — Lindy Ruff
Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season. — Peter Bondra
I won eight Stanley Cups as a player, and I've been told it's because I played on great teams. I won two as a general manager, and I've been told it's because I was lucky. — Serge Savard
I'd never won the Stanley Cup so I asked Cournoyer right after the final if this was like winning the Cup. He said, 'This is ten times better.' I believed him. — Dennis Hull
After referees negated a line change that led to Tampa Bay"s winning goal in the Stanley Cup Playoffs: After all these years in the league, am I that stupid that I would put four forwards and one defenseman in a 3-3 tie, in the third period? I think everybody that knows me here knows I"m not that stupid. I might be halfway stupid, but not that stupid. — Pat Burns
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