Hockey Quotes · Page 29

Fifty percent of the game is mental and the other 50 percent is being mental. I've got that part down, no problem.

— Basil McRae

There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.

— Stan Mikita

I would love to do another hockey movie. There are a lot of people in Hollywood looking for the right hockey script.

— D. B. Sweeney

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love…

— Matthew Perry

It wasn't easy to act when dressed in the heavy ice hockey uniform - it was exhausting.

— Seo In-guk

I like to have the puck when I have speed. You know, then I'm dangerous.

— Alexander Ovechkin

I mean, that's playoff hockey. You're not going to dominate every game, you're not going to score every goal.

— Brad Marchand

It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.

— Guy Lafleur

Playing in the OHL, people expect you to get a ton of points. When you go out and have a good game…

— Connor McDavid

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because…

— Gordie Howe

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…

— Barclay Plager

The game is played out of instinct, but everyone on the ice has habits - good and bad. So the key to…

— Wayne Gretzky

My dad has always said to me, "where there is a will there is a way" and this is the type of…

— P. K. Subban

But there was a hockey game where they didn't even play hockey, they just threw the puck aside and started fighting. I…

— Richard Sherman

You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between…

— Joe Sakic

I think when I first came into the League, I was blowing the zone all the time, just kind of expecting pucks…

— Connor McDavid

The only difference between the Coyotes and 'Days of Our Lives' is that nobody has been shot on our team yet.

— Jeremy Roenick

Sometimes the pass is perfect, but you can't shoot the puck. Sometimes it's a bad pass and you do a good shot.

— Alexander Ovechkin

Once I got a little bit taller I forgot about that dream. But when I was a little kid I was dreaming…

— Lauri Markkanen

I was known as the weird guy who couldn't play basketball because I had to go to hockey practice twice a week.

— T. J. Oshie

I always tell Bobby he was up in the air so so long that I had had time to shower and change…

— Bobby Orr

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

— Wayne Gretzky

It's an amazing honor to be the fourth Black hockey player to go into the Hall of Fame. It's a huge thrill.

— Jarome Iginla

In the K.H.L., you're even more patient at your position because the rink is so big, you cannot play that way.

— Jaromir Jagr

The greatest hockey player who ever lived: Bobby Orr, and I love him.

— Donald Stewart Cherry

We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.

— Steven Pinker

“What did grown men see in the rattle of sticks, the slashing of steel over ice and hockey sweaters worn way beyond…

— Steve Vernon

I started playing hockey late and it was unclear until the very last moment if I was talented or not. But it…

— Alexander Ovechkin

I don't have a great story, but I love Boards of Canada. I didn't get into it when it was happening; I…

— Flying Lotus

He's a gritty hockey player, he's got good vision, he's an intelligent player.

— John Muckler

Anything coach Babcock needs me to do, I'll do it and if it's face-off well, I'm willing and ready to do that…

— Patrice Bergeron

All that matters is that you find a way to put the puck in the net. It doesn't matter how. I learned…

— Jaromir Jagr

There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.

— Keith Allen

“For years I've gone to bed gazing up at the eternal question: WHAT IF THE HOCKEY POKEY IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT?”

— Annabel Monaghan

Eight days ago, we were the toast of the town. Eight days later we're Thanksgiving turkeys.

— Wayne Gretzky

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

— Paul Gallico

Heroes? Vietnam Vets are heroes. The guys who tried to rescuse our hostages in Iran are heroes. I'm just a hockey player.

— Mike Eruzione

My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.

— Gabe Polsky

When it comes to hockey, it's been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the…

— Mario Lemieux

In hockey, sometimes a shift can go for a minute and a half, full out.

— Max Aaron