Hockey Quotes · Page 32

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

— Harry Sinden

And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.

— Dierks Bentley

I can't remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in…

— Wayne Gretzky

I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.

— Ted Lindsay

The NHL is the best in the world, it has the best players. I love the NHL.

— Alexander Ovechkin

There wasn't a day when I felt like hockey was work. I still don't feel that way.

— P.K. Subban

“I-"Fuck. "Well, I am angry at you, Nathan." "Good." "So fucking angry." "Perfect.”

— Hannah Grace

Rocket had that mean look on, every game we played. He was 100 percent hockey. He could hate with the best of them.

— Gordie Howe

I remember all the older guys, when I started playing, telling me how fast it all goes by. I remember being an…

— Joe Thornton

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

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

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

— Matt Frewer

My dad owns a hockey rink and he was sharpening my first pair of skates while I was still in the womb.

— Johnny Gaudreau

It is an immense privilege to be able to play in the NHL. I was very blessed and a lot of things…

— Pat LaFontaine

Playing in the NHL, year by year, you learn to deal with things a little better.

— Joe Thornton

I think it is very important to spend time to help make people all over the world see how great a game…

— Alexander Ovechkin

I love Boston. I come here all the time and play pick-up ice hockey with friends in Concord and Bedford.

— William Quigley

You know the old joke, I went to the fights and a hockey game broke out.

— Steven Wright

I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.

— Anonymous

As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like…

— Carl Hagelin

I'm proud to be Russian. We have probably the best country in the world. Everything is the best: hockey players, cars, girls.

— Alexander Ovechkin

Let's move back to Canada when the Leafs win the Stanley Cup... in 2044! Hahahaha! ..Canada sucks!

— Chris Jericho

I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.

— Bobby Orr

The hockey lockout of 1994 - 1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering... and can now get down to some serious bloodshed!

— Conan O'Brien

The season is long. When I'm off, I try to distract myself from hockey.

— Alexander Ovechkin

I think I learned a lot just playing against Canada and Russia. Their rosters are filled with NHL studs and All-Stars.

— Auston Matthews

When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.

— Joe Sakic

You've just got to go out there and try to control the things you can control. Deal with things and stay mentally…

— Jonathan Toews

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

— Scotty Bowman

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite…

— Keanu Reeves

...my papa said son don't let the man getcha and do what he done to me...

— John Fogerty

To his US Olympic team - Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow.

— John Mariucci

I've called all sports. I was a radio DJ, club DJ, talk show host, hockey, basketball, football; you name it, I've done…

— Mauro Ranallo

I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?

— Anonymous

Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing…

— David Walton

I have to thank the guy who fired me because he was also the guy who hired me.

— Serge Savard