Game Quote by Jimmy Cannon

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

— Paul Gallico

Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all, it keeps them off the street.

— Gus Kyle

Playing goal is like being shot at.

— Jacques Plante

A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.

— Jimmy Cannon

If you've only got one day to live, come see the Toronto Maple Leafs. It'll seem like forever.

— Pat LaFontaine

Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.

— Chico Resch

He brings something special. I don't know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn't understand his answer.

— Wayne Gretzky

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…

— Chris Chelios

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

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

— Doug Larson

Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental.

— Jim McKenny

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

— Frank Deford