Best Hockey Wisdom
682 Hockey quotes by 345 unique authors
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Playing hockey, there were a lot of guys bigger than me, so I knew I was going to get hit and have to deal with…
— Mike Weir
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I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available.
— Merlin Olsen
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When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.
— Joe Sakic
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How would you like a job where, if you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?
— Jacques Plante
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I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and…
— Wayne Gretzky
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Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
— Pierre Trudeau
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All that means is that I'll be 783 years old when I catch Scotty Bowman.
— Kevin Constantine
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Aw, don't worry about that Doc. If it happens I could always come back as a forward.
— Unknown Author
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Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.
— Chico Resch
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I think he knows all my tricks. Or the fact I don't have any tricks - Brendan Shanahan on trying to score against Curtis Joseph.…
— Ron Tugnutt
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I was happy to have an attraction in our building that we didn't have to pay for.
— Harold Ballard
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Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.
— Doug Larson
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I'd be lying to you if I said guys weren't afraid of him. I'm afraid of him, afraid of him running in to me.
— Unknown Author
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It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be…
— Chris Chelios
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It would have been worse if we hadn't blocked the kick after Toronto's second touchdown.
— Unknown Author
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It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.
— Eric Lindros
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My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars.
— Bobby Hull
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Our system of forechecking is to shoot the puck and leave it there.
— Harry Neale
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People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating…
— Wayne Gretzky
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To his US Olympic team - Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow.
— Unknown Author
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We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
— Bobby Clarke
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When I look at the net I don't see a goalie.
— Unknown Author
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Yes, and I also like jumping out of tall buildings.
— John Vanbiesbrouck
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Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon.
— Unknown Author
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Call them pros, call them mercenaries - but in fact they are just grown - up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or…
— Unknown Author
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