Hockey Quotes · Page 24

We're scared of losing. That's why we win. We know what it's like to lose and we hate it. We enjoy being…

— Bob Bourne

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.

— Doug Larson

The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. ... That's a pretty…

— Al MacInnis

I was the only person in a class of 12 in theatre school who played hockey.

— Noah Reid

I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education…

— Sarah Palin

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

— Martina Hingis

We talk about mental toughness all the time. That's the biggest thing good teams have, that they can overcome adversity.

— Bryan Murray

To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.

— Gordie Howe

I always liked having a uniform. Growing up, when I was playing baseball, or hockey, or football. Always nice to have a…

— Jim Harbaugh

I was captain of the netball team, captain of the hockey team and I did my sprinting, but I would push myself.…

— Jayne Middlemiss

Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have…

— Paul Coffey

I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk.…

— Tom McVie

Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or…

— Jean de Gribaldy

With my gear, my hockey sticks or my skates, I'm always looking for the next thing - whatever's going to give me…

— T. J. Oshie

My dream as a kid was always to win the Stanley Cup. There's nothing else like it and there's no better feeling…

— T. J. Oshie

I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions…

— Vincent Piazza

After referees negated a line change that led to Tampa Bay"s winning goal in the Stanley Cup Playoffs: After all these years…

— Pat Burns

I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the…

— Bruce Hutchison

You know there are so many people that have touched your life both on the ice and within your career in the…

— Ron Francis

The fact is I've been the kind of parent who has been there at every single sports day, my kids are achievers…

— Pooja Bedi

I went to elementary school in Goodeve, Saskatchewan, a small Ukrainian town. I played a lot of hockey, a lot of ball.…

— Perry Bellegarde

My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and…

— Jonathan Toews

Dedicating your life to something, dedicating time to something, ending up achieving it and maybe doing better than that. Me personally, that…

— Jack Hughes

Wayne Gretzky's talent doesn't come from studying everything he's experienced in hockey and making long-term game plans. It comes from constantly taking…

— Kevin Maney

I've tried so far to learn as much as possible. I think I've got a good grasp of what a hockey GM…

— Martin Brodeur

You learn by playing a great team, and I'm talking about character things, not hockey technique.

— Paul Coffey

I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy…

— Brendan Fehr

I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an…

— Bob Dylan

I never look at myself as a black player. I think of myself as a hockey player that wants to be the…

— P.K. Subban

This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.

— Lester B. Pearson

People know me from a hockey game, from an earthquake, from the O.J case.

— Al Michaels

The OHL compared to the NHL playoffs, I don't think they really compare. You can't really rely on that experience.

— Connor McDavid

It's kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn't…

— Wayne Gretzky

I did enjoy baseball, and it was certainly something I liked to play, but hockey would become my No. 1 passion.

— Auston Matthews

A nontraditional hockey market is turning into more of a traditional market. We're now a fabric of Nashville.

— Barry Trotz

I think it would be unbelievable to play in the NHL as an 18-year-old.

— Jack Hughes

I love playing hockey and I want to be out there as quickly as possible.

— Carey Price

So, my off season, when I'm not playing a lot of hockey, I play quite a bit of golf.

— Auston Matthews

I like to play the puck. I like to be creative a little bit around my net, and now it's been taken…

— Martin Brodeur

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

— Don Maloney