Hockey Quotes · Page 24

By far Gretzky is the most talented player ever. Every time he gets the puck something exciting happens.

— Mike Milbury

Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.

— Amarillo Slim

I don't want to get into a 'he said, she said' with the refs...I'm the he.

— Chris Pronger

I played defense at one point but my dad was a goaltender so I think that had a lot of influence on…

— Carey Price

Hockey has changed drastically over the years. Indian greats then played on grass. Now we play on astro-turf.

— P. R. Sreejesh

I have nothing against college hockey or junior hockey. They produce tons and tons of really great players.

— Auston Matthews

“I won't sugarcoat shit. You're tiptoeing on the line between batshit crazy and sane.”

— Toni Aleo

I wake up every morning and say, 'I get to go play hockey.' It really is that cool for me.

— Joe Thornton

When you talk about Lacrosse, you talk about the lifeblood of the six nations. The game is ingrained into our culture and…

— Oren Lyons

I didn't know that I'd like it this much, coaching both boys and... seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It…

— Joe Sakic

Chunking makes our brains more efficient. The more you can chunk something, the faster and easier you can process it. Wayne Gretzky…

— Kevin Maney

Of course, my family has been a big reason for me to come back, especially my son who loves the game of…

— Mario Lemieux

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to…

— Norman Ralph Augustine

I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel…

— Rahul Dravid

It's not about what you did yesterday, it's what you do tomorrow. If you rely too much on yesterday, tomorrow is going…

— John Vanbiesbrouck

It's hard at times, but other times it's the most fun you're going to have I think in the entire NHL is…

— Carey Price

It's something I work on every once in a while. I'll skate around the neutral zone and have one of our assistants…

— T. J. Oshie

Twenty years ago people thought they were fishing nets and all sorts of things when you brought out a lacrosse stick. Now…

— Gary Gait

It's the one thing that the Devils have always prided themselves on. That comes from recruiting. We try and pick out the…

— Gerad Adams

I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote…

— Abhishek Bachchan

I think it's just a coincidence that the North American teams are out. Most of us here have been playing in North…

— Daniel Alfredsson

I like other sports, too, including skiing and swimming, and I am learning to play ice hockey now. But judo is definitely…

— Vladimir Putin

Just because you've had one or two of those games, you can't really go back to the next practice and change everything.…

— Jonas Gustavsson

How do we make hockey more affordable? How do we get it into more households? How do we keep it part of…

— Hilary Knight

Wayne came over to the bench one day after seeing (Zdeno) Chara, and said 'That's why I'm quitting.'

— John Muckler

Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon.

— Gene Hart

I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It's what I love the most.

— Wayne Gretzky

I've always dreamt of being on a Stanley Cup-winning team. That always stayed with me.

— Jarome Iginla

“Why does Kira care about hockey? She doesn’t. She cares about a person who cares about hockey…”

— Fredrik Backman

It was a fun ride. I've enjoyed my time on the ice and I've enjoyed more and more people getting interested in…

— Ron Francis

Usually when people eat sliders they're really hard because they're so small, so they're like hockey pucks.

— Jonathan Cheban

I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you…

— Curtis Joseph

My first love was hockey, but it seemed the more I skated and danced with Tessa, the more I fell in love…

— Scott Moir

As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where its packed every night, theres nothing like…

— Carl Hagelin

I have always been interested in finding new ways to play and have looked at handball keepers and ice hockey goal-minders. It…

— Manuel Neuer

I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire.

— Bobby Hull

They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building…

— Johnny Carson

I can't control what people say or anything like that. I have to focus on what I can control and that's what…

— Patrick Marleau

Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.

— Phil Jackson

I focus on the dumbness of Hagelin... He played a hell of a game but that's all washed off from dumbness.

— John Tortorella