Personally I don't believe in standing on the ice, or…

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

— John Leonard

I swear I have never told a player to attack another player. In fact, I have told my players if they ever hear me…

— Fred Shero

The one thing I'd always wanted to do in my career is push myself out of my comfort zone - I think I'm really…

— Hayley Wickenheiser

I hated everybody I played against, and they hated me. That's the way hockey should be played.

— Ted Lindsay

My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get…

— Gary Bettman

“If you are prepared,” he told his players, “you will be confident, and will do the job.”

— Tim Sanders

Everybody whose anybody in hockey has played in Hershey.

— Gordie Howe

As the manager, Ive told my players that if anyone is sin-binned for backchat to referees or officials, they will miss the next two…

— Robbie Savage

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

— Mary McCarthy

“UCLA basketball coach John Wooden told players who scored to give a smile, wink, or nod to the player who gave them a good…

— John C. Maxwell

I told players that when we score a goal, the bench lives through the same emotions and we celebrate with them, with the same…

— Andre Villas-Boas

“That August evening at Los Pajaritos, el mister, as coaches are known in Spain, told his players something that he has repeated several times…

— Guillem Balague

I told our players at Butler, 'I hate to break it to you, but you aren't playing beyond here. That's reality. So why are…

— Brad Stevens

The model for an NHL without fighting is right there in front of us. The [playoffs are] the time of year that fans love…

— Ken Dryden

When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone…

— Alexander Gordon Smith