1.
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.
Wayne Gretzky
Hockey is a distinctive game in which it takes the combined effort of every team member to reach victory.
2.
You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists.
Wayne Gretzky
I won't boast about my goals, but I'm more than happy to discuss my contributions to others' successes.
3.
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky
'An accomplished hockey player responds to the present situation. A stellar hockey player anticipates what is to come.'
5.
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
Gordie Howe
6.
A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.
Gina Lollobrigida
7.
I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.
Jeremy London
8.
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
9.
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
10.
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.
Gordie Howe
11.
Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
Kate Smith
12.
Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
Bobby Hull
13.
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
14.
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.
Teemu Selanne
15.
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
16.
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
17.
Great moments are born from great opportunities.
Herb Brooks
18.
You know, I've held women and babies and jewels and money, but nothing will ever feel as good as holding that Cup.
Wayne Gretzky
20.
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.
Sidney Crosby
21.
Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work.
Jean Beliveau
22.
In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.
Althea Gibson
23.
I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.
Scotty Bowman
24.
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.
Jesse Owens
26.
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.
Pete Domenici
28.
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.
Donald Bradman
29.
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
30.
Forget about style; worry about results.
Bobby Orr
31.
Only a goalie can appreciate what a goalie goes through.
Jacques Plante
32.
I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
Bill Bowerman
33.
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
34.
High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating.
Scotty Bowman
35.
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
37.
I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.
Phil Jackson
38.
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
39.
I'm leaving the game of hockey with nothing but great memories...
Joe Sakic
40.
When I look at the net I don't see a goalie.
Pavel Bure
42.
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
43.
Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.
Brett Hull
44.
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.
Wayne Gretzky
45.
There are two types of forwards. Scorers and bangers. Scorers score and bangers bang.
Ken Dryden
46.
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
47.
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
48.
I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.
Brett Hull
49.
What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.
Joe Paterno
50.
I don't train to look good in the mirror. I train to make improvements in my game.
Duncan Keith