Hockey Quotes

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.

You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

I heard Rolex makes nice watches.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

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.

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.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

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.

When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. Thats just the way it was.

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!

Great moments are born from great opportunities.

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.

You know, I've held women and babies and jewels and money, but nothing will ever feel as good as holding that Cup.

The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that passion is the most important part. It's not skills or talent or any of that stuff.

Every day is a great day for hockey.

Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

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.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game.

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.

Forget about style; worry about results.

About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I find it difficult to come to terms with a life where old and valued friends insist on calling me 'Sir' instead of Don, simply because they think it is protocol. But I have consciously shouldered these burdens because I felt that I was the medium through which cricket could achieve a higher status and gain maximum support from the people, not only in Australia but throughout the world.

I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.

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.

Only a goalie can appreciate what a goalie goes through.

High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating.

I'm okay. Russian machine never breaks.

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.

I'll always be Number 1 to myself.

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.

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.

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.

I'm leaving the game of hockey with nothing but great memories...

When I look at the net I don't see a goalie.

I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.

There are two types of forwards. Scorers and bangers. Scorers score and bangers bang.

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.

I don't train to look good in the mirror. I train to make improvements in my game.

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.

I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.

What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.