Hockey Quotes · Page 30

Hockey is like a religion in Montreal. You're either a saint or a sinner; there's no in-between.

— Patrick Roy

The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom.

— Nick Bakay

Coaches are like ducks. Calm on top, but paddling underneath. Believe me, there's a lot of leg movement.

— Ken Hitchcock

That awkward moment when you go to watch a fight, and a hockey game breaks out.

— Anonymous

I get to play hockey for a living. So I don't ever take that for granted.

— Johnny Gaudreau

He's a gutless puke, that's what Travis Green is. That's why he doesn't wear an Islander uniform any more.

— Mike Milbury

People here want the team to win and to do well. The thing is, we know when to shoot the puck.

— Steve Yzerman

Hockey is our big sport, and if you fight in hockey you get five minutes for it, that's it. So in Canada,…

— Jeremy Hotz

Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects…

— Eric Heiden

I never wanted to be an actor as a kid. I wanted to play hockey, like every other kid in Canada. I…

— Matt Frewer

Choosing hockey to make a sports movie was a bit tough but I wanted to show people the hard work a hockey…

— Ammy Virk

I was sporty in high school. I played tennis and hockey, and was basketball captain. Then I went to university and stopped…

— Rebel Wilson

“Concern washes over Jess’s brown eyes. Followed by the heat of accusation as she spins toward Blake again. “You didn’t tell me…

— Sarina Bowen

A lot of my friends growing up were hunters, but I spent all my time on the ice hurting actual humans playing…

— Kevin Durand

As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the…

— Ron Francis

It is a huge honor for me to be an ambassador for the entire Washington Capitals organization and the National Hockey League…

— Alexander Ovechkin

You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.

— O. Winston Link

When I was 5, I'm like,' I'm doing this,' whether there's women's ice hockey, men's ice hockey, whatever it was in my…

— Hilary Knight

Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?

— Becky Lynch

I'd say there's 100 percent of the guys who think they're in the 25 percent.

— Doug Weight

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

— Brett Hull

Sources also confirm that there is no one left in Canada who can remember when hockey was a simple game, played for…

— Roy MacGregor

On Sergei Fedorov's breaking three sticks on Dallas players: I don't know if Anna (Kournikova) told him to get tougher or what.

— Mike Modano

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

— Leigh Steinberg

Hopefully I can be a good light in the hockey world and promote faith as something that's really real.

— Mike Fisher

“Those born in the last quarter of the year might as well give up on hockey too.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

I made the move (to #NYR) thinking about this opportunity, to play in the #StanleyCup Final.

— Martin St. Louis

You can have all the talent in the world, but if the pumper's not there, it doesn't matter.

— Glen Sather

One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy.

— George Vecsey

Or as hockey player Sergei Fedorov knows it, 'The day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.'

— Craig Kilborn

I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect…

— Carol Alt

I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse.

— Nicole Ari Parker

When I was playing street hockey, I really thought that I had some skills!

— Sami Zayn

I was a kid in New Jersey. Watched the Flyers. Loved hockey. Always at the rink.

— Johnny Gaudreau

I've been playing hockey games since the Sega Genesis way back when.

— Joe Thornton

Hullie's a lot like a garbage can. You step on the pedal with your foot and the top opens up.

— Wayne Gretzky

I've got a hockey record, I took off my skate and tried to stab a guy, I'm the only person who ever…

— Adam Sandler

Matt Cooke may be the worst fighter in the history of the National Hockey League.

— Dave Nonis

Screw the Rangers, and screw the Devils; I work for the Islanders now, and I could care less about them!

— Mike Milbury

People think there is something wrong with Mike(Milbury). But there's method in his madness.

— Scott Lachance