Hockey Quotes · Page 26

Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.

— Frank Deford

It's the nuts and bolts time of the year and we don't have enough nuts and bolts.

— Darryl Sutter

I wish that we could tumble them in the dryer for 30 minutes and get them to shrink, but that won't happen.

— Bob Hartley

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.

— Andy Roddick

In a weird way, [hockey] is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one.

— Michael Vartan

He's the kind of guy who will stab you in the back right to your face.

— Brett Hull

I actually played hockey my whole life, all the way up until ninth grade.

— Rob Gronkowski

Hockey is its own game. It's completely different than all the other games, although it's getting way too close to soccer.

— Brett Hull

Overall I can fairly safely say Bobby Orr impressed me more than anybody with his tremendous talents. In Bobby's first N.H.L. game…

— Gordie Howe

As a kid growing up in Montreal, I wanted to become either a hockey player or a wrestler. Since my family didn't…

— Sami Zayn

It wasn't until I was at 39 that I joined my first real hockey team. Which was great. I scored a couple…

— Aden Young

After returning from his stint in the minors made reference to the movie Slapshot with: I'm happy to be back. It was…

— Glenn Healy

I wear whatever makes me comfortable on stage, so that I feel confident. Some days it's a plaid skirt with a button-up…

— Sky Ferreira

Whenever I won an award in the NHL, I thought of my father and the pride he would get in reading about…

— Jacques Plante

We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is…

— Fred Shero

Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio…

— Roger Ebert

America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's…

— Mark Steyn

When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take…

— Peter Lynch

I guess the prime example is in North America there's a thing where if there's no opportunity to move forward with the…

— Gabe Polsky

I try to get to the gym at least a few times a week, hopefully more. I also play hockey in a…

— Robbie Amell

My Uncle Henry had a rink in his backyard. I remember one night I woke up too excited to sleep. I think…

— T. J. Oshie

We might have, with Hockey Canada, an Aero Bar, a chocolate bar. 'Okay we're going to play for this chocolate bar.' Here…

— Barry Trotz

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

— Ken Dryden

“Ah, the trainer with the hands," one of them said. She was very pretty, thick dark hair and even darker eyes. She…

— Toni Aleo

“I’m surprised to hear you’re a hockey virgin. You’ve just made tonight’s game all the better. I’m looking forward to breaking you…

— Anonymous

I told (Anze) Kopitar 'You aren't touching the puck enough. I don't like your breakout.' I think Kopitar can make magic with…

— Marcel Dionne

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

— Allan Fromme

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

— Ted Lindsay

I don't know anything about hockey. They don't have hockey in the Dominican.

— Manny Ramirez

I'm the biggest Blackhawks fan ever. I've been going to games since I was 6 years old.

— Al Jourgensen

“You make me want to suck a bruise on you just to kiss it better. --Luc to Jane--”

— Rachel Gibson

“ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.”

— Anthony Liccione

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating…

— Patrick Chan

I know I'm black. Everyone knows I'm black. But I don't want to be defined as a black hockey player.

— P.K. Subban

Obviously, being a hockey fan, I always bought all of the hockey games, so that makes this 'NHL 2K7' cover even more…

— Joe Thornton

I'm just really passionate about the game of hockey. It's all I know and I love it.

— Joe Thornton

We're not only hockey players. A lot of guys have families and girlfriends. You can't just think about hockey 24-7.

— Mike Comrie

My brother Dash hit me on the head with five textbooks in a gym bag.

— Tie Domi

In Japan, skating is like NHL hockey in Canada or baseball in the U.S., so pushing the limit is very enticing. Skating…

— Patrick Chan

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

— Bobby Knight