Nhl Quotes

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

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.

I heard Rolex makes nice watches.

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.

What scares me is how easily it happened.

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

It didn't feel like it was anything too major, but if you had to look at one hit that would be it.

It was the kind of light blow that is exchanged without notice or consequence hundreds of times in a game.

I might have practiced stick-handling with my head up a bit more.

I've been fortunate. I've had no residual effects whatsoever. I got out just in time.

Forget about style; worry about results.

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.

This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided.

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'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.

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

It's not about what you did yesterday, it's what you do tomorrow. If you rely too much on yesterday, tomorrow is going to jump up and bite you in the pants.

I didn't know that I'd like it this much, coaching both boys and... seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice.

Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental.

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.

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.

I just tape four Tylenols to it.

Everything was set for us to play a real good game. Then we left the dressing room and everything went to hell.

We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.

I try to hold it in until I get on the ice, then in front of the net sometimes I'll pass gas.

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.

Once you win the Cup once, you feel like it's yours. You don't want to give it up.

The goal is too small and the goalies are too big.

It's only game. Why you have to be mad?

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.

They left us together for a reason. Let's show them why.

Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor.

Sometimes when I make a good save, I yell out, 'Woo-Hooo!' I'm not sure why, but it just feels good. I don't think I scare anyone or freak anyone out when I do it. I just like to holler when I make a tough stop.

My teeth weren't that good to begin with, so hopefully I can get some better ones.

I don't think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.

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.

Every time I see you naked, I feel sorry for your wife.

There is no escalator to [hockey] success only steps.

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.

You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.

No, that's not true. I didn't see his place that much, but he's a good kid and I had fun playing with him.

One thing I hate is people screaming at me. If you want me to do something, talk to me. When someone screams at me to hurry up, I slow down.

I went from junior hockey to the World Junior Championships to the combine and the draft, to the Blackhawks camp, and then a full NHL season and then the World Championships. At nineteen, that's exhausting.

They always try to play with our minds. But that won't work with our club. We've got 20 guys without brains.

We don't care what that bug-eyed fat walrus has to say.

It must be the body. It's chiseled out of marshmallows.

Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.

It's kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL

The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.