Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Hull

If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.

Carol Alt

I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was.

Brendan Morrison

Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying.

Bobby Clarke

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

Bobby Hull

My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars.

Dean Lombardi

I've always felt we weren't physical enough on the back line. Now there's a no - parking sign in front of our net.

Angela Ruggiero

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

Saku Koivu

The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.

Sterling Beaumon

I love to play hockey. I'm a huge hockey fan and I love to play as well.

Scotty Bowman

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.

Scotty Bowman

High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating.

Scotty Bowman

The goal is too small and the goalies are too big.

Stu Grimson

The great thing about hockey players is that they are able to separate the on-ice from the off-ice and not let the latter distract them.

Stu Grimson

That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my (expletive) clothes.

Richard Sherman

But there was a hockey game where they didn't even play hockey, they just threw the puck aside and started fighting. I saw that and I thought, 'Oh man, I'm a thug? I know some thugs and they know I'm the farthest thing from a thug.

Michael E. Mann

The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.

Michael Vartan

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

Scott Stevens

Maybe there wasn't much hot water in the showers. I'm not sure.

Scott Stevens

What kind of respect do I get? ... Just because I'm a physical player, it's O.K. to come at me and do what you want? Hey, it's a hockey game. It's not figure skating. You know what? I can take a hit and I can give a hit. I don't care who it is. No one gets a free ride out there. I don't get a free ride, and no one gets a free ride from me.

Ray Bourque

If I can be half the hockey player that Bobby Orr was, I'll be happy.

Ray Bourque

Goals live on the other side of obstacles and challenges. Be relentless in pursuit of those goals, especially in the face of obstacles. Along the way, make no excuses and place no blame.

Sky Ferreira

I wear whatever makes me comfortable on stage, so that I feel confident. Some days it's a plaid skirt with a button-up and other days it's jeans with a hockey jersey and platforms.

Norm Crosby

Why do Canadians like to do it doggie style? So they can both keep watching the hockey game

Mike Weir

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 it. Gotta hit back.

John Tortorella

I focus on the dumbness of Hagelin... He played a hell of a game but that's all washed off from dumbness.

John Tortorella

Because he stinks on the power play. He stinks. I don't know why. I wish I could put him on the power play, but every time I put him on, he stinks.

Maureen Johnson

The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts...nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.

Matthew Perry

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

Matisyahu

Before I was 14, I wanted to be a singer, an actor, or a hockey player. By 15, I knew I was going to be a singer.

Pat LaFontaine

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

Mike Milbury

I don't like being mediocre. I won't be.

Mike Milbury

He's a gutless puke, that's what Travis Green is. That's why he doesn't wear an Islander uniform any more.

Mike Milbury

Screw the Rangers, and screw the Devils; I work for the Islanders now, and I could care less about them!