Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Cusack

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

John Fogerty

...my papa said son don't let the man getcha and do what he done to me...

Jimmy Cannon

Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud.

Jimmy Cannon

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

Eric Lindros

People on the streets are ready for hockey.

Eric Lindros

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

John Muckler

Wayne came over to the bench one day after seeing (Zdeno) Chara, and said 'That's why I'm quitting.'

John Muckler

He's a gritty hockey player, he's got good vision, he's an intelligent player.

Joffrey Lupul

Um no, but kind of ...

Joffrey Lupul

That hockey game will haunt me until the day I die.

Jimmy Fallon

That's right, Mitt Romney took on Evander Holyfield in a boxing match for charity, and it was a pretty one-sided fight. But it was still not the worst boxing match we've seen this month. This weekend Vladimir Putin played in an exhibition hockey game with some former NHL players and scored eight goals. Even Evander Holyfield and Mitt Romney said, 'That looks fake.'

Frank Deford

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

Joe Thornton

It's a good start. Seems like all the lines have chemistry right now. It's tough to tell after one game, but with only one practice all the guys looked like the flowed pretty good out there after the first period.

And he was always out there on the ice practicing after I was through. He's always been a part of hockey or, I guess, hockey's always been a part of him.

Hayley Wickenheiser

I hear they had our flag on their dressing room floor. I wonder if they'd like us to sign it?

Heston Blumenthal

It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.

Henry Hudson

A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.

Gordon Lightfoot

I never got really good at hockey.

Timmy and I are trying to get it back to Hockey East.

A lot of teams in junior hockey go on a three-year cycle. We wanted to put together a competitive team every year.

Brian Campbell

They're a big hockey club. We've got to keep using our speed.

It's very disappointing, because the people at USA Hockey do a tremendous job. There is a lot of pressure on people. The top people at USA Hockey are volunteers.

Brendan Shanahan

It's not pretty hockey but that's what makes the trap so successful.

Ken Hitchcock

You don't want to start out next weekend trying to find your hockey game.

Gary Roberts

It was a very stressful time for all of us. We were sitting up here in Pittsburgh for a hockey game, and they were going through a hurricane.

We practically have enough for our own roller hockey team.

Al MacInnis

The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. ... That's a pretty scary thought.

Chris Chelios

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 thinking.

Ed Belfour

There's an old saying that when it gets tough the tough get going. You have to work your way through these things.

Cherie Piper

We all bring some different elements at the Games. Everything is a stepping stone for us after playing these two games. These Games are preparing us to play a 60-minutes game and preparing us for the gold-medal game.

Bob Marley

I see you finally got a number to match your IQ.

Bobby Orr

I always tell Bobby he was up in the air so so long that I had had time to shower and change before he hit the ice.

Bobby Orr

Hockey is a tough game. With all the talk and everything that's going on right now, it frightens me a little bit that we are giving our players an excuse not to hit. I just hope that we don't take that out of our game at the pro level.