Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Milbury

It's always good to have the building filled - even if it's with low-IQ Rangers fans.

Mike Milbury

We've made a final offer. We hope Ziggy Palffy will come to his senses. We have NO hope his agent will.

Mike Modano

On Sergei Fedorov's breaking three sticks on Dallas players: I don't know if Anna (Kournikova) told him to get tougher or what.

Mike Modano

I Didn't Drop My Gloves. They Were Pulled Off Me!

Mario Lemieux

Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be.

Mario Lemieux

When I'm able to see the ice ahead of time when I get the puck, I'm able to make some pretty good plays.

Mario Lemieux

Since the beginning, I always loved the game.

Mario Lemieux

I don't order fries with my club sandwich.

Mario Lemieux

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

Michael Cera

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

Michael Buble

I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.

Mark Recchi

He had better get married soon, because he's getting uglier every day!

Michael Richards

It's a big game tomorrow, obviously, quarter finals. I think that whenever you play the Russians you always get up for it, and tomorrow is going to be even that much bigger, the quarter finals.

Petr Nedved

For me, the Number 1 thing is to play hockey and the rest of the things will work out.

I loved ice hockey. I used to play ice hockey. So, you know I wanted to be a hockey player.

I find it scandalous. Even a hockey player doesn't get that kind of money sometimes. Compensation should be lined up with results. How can you get compensation if you didn't do the work?

I feel like the message we want to send is that we're going to be moving up the standings board. Going into Wisconsin and playing 120 minutes of solid hockey is our goal. We want to go out and get some league points this weekend.

Jesse Owens

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

Jacques Plante

Playing goal is like being shot at.

Jacques Plante

Only a goalie can appreciate what a goalie goes through.

Christopher Heyerdahl

I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.

Gary Bettman

The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

Gary Bettman

When you take off that sweater, your jersey, after today's game, you will be the last player in the NHL to ever wear 99. You have always been and you will always be 'The Great One,' and there will never be another.

Eugene Levy

Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough city thing is fine. Its always had a reputation as that. ... You know, Gordie Howe, when I was watching hockey, was the toughest guy in the league playing for the Red Wings. He represented that tough aura.

Ethel Merman

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

George Vecsey

One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy.

Chris Osgood

I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie.

Chris Osgood

I've told you guys before, goalies don't think.

Chris Jericho

I always played hockey, I was always a hockey fan, but I was never bitten by the hockey bug... I never looked into playing it professionally.

Garth Snow

He should be worried about playing the game, not innovating it. He thinks he's Brett Hull or something. You should remind him that he didn't go to college. He's a junior (hockey) guy. So he's not that bright.

Guy Lafleur

Play every game as if it's your last one

Guy Lafleur

You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.

Guy Kawasaki

Hockey is the only thing that I'm not good at that I love.