Top 540 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Hockey Players - Page 7

In the Olympics we are facing the toughest opponents in the world so that shows that you do have the chance to beat any team at any given day.

You're paid to perform. There is an outcome to a game and it doesn't matter how many goals you score. If you don't win, you don't have a good time.

When you are stepping on the field as a hockey player you are part of a dream and being a team member you have your responsibilities, you have your duties.

It's going to be a long, tough journey to the Olympics.

When you're playing an exhibition, you're kind of letting everyone get an opportunity.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

When I got drafted I just wanted to play one game in the NHL. I didn't really care anything about winning.

I am up for challenges.

I was fortunate to play on great teams that allowed me to play with my own personality, which is so important to a goaltender.

It's kind of funny the way it happened - the way I became a goalie. I was playing forward on this one team when I was little, and there was another team that needed a backup goalie. I mean, to me it just meant a chance to play more hockey, so I was all for it.

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

We are maintaining a 25-member squad for Rio Games so that has kept a healthy competition within the team. If there are any injuries, we have immediate replacements.

You miss every shot you don't take.

I kind of have to pinch myself. A lot of my dreams are coming true.

Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.

I couldn't be happier in San Jose. They're a class organization.

I've played golf everywhere in New Jersey. People are nice to me. It's great.

Well, I hate needles and stitches. I'm the biggest wimp when it comes to that stuff. Can't stand it. That little needle is the worst feeling for me. I hate it.

I always wanted to be like Mark Messier and I loved Wayne Gretzky, the same as other kids. But it was also really special for me to see the Black players that were in the NHL.

When you are in the field you just need to give your best, it doesn't matter whether you are the lone goalkeeper or not.

Hockey is not an individual game. It is rather a team game.

You have to go through some adversity to be able to be successful.

Being injured sucks. When you see all your buddies out there playing it's tough.

It doesn't matter what I think. It doesn't matter what other people think. You have to get on the ice and participate and play and the best team wins.

I enjoy endurance training with 5 to 10-kilometre runs. Weight training comes a close second.

Our job is to get on the road and win one game now. It's a great position to be in. We were lucky to get home ice [advantage] this year. For some reason, we pulled it off at the end and we took advantage early in the series. Now, it's up to us to do our thing on the road.

Hey, I love seeing the smiles of my teammates when they score.

I've got to live my life. Bad things happen. I can't be sitting here worrying about it.

There's so much of a rivalry there, the Devils and Rangers.

You have to close quickly, you have to eliminate time and space and you have to try to deny them the puck. When you're playing with it, it forces them out of their rhythm and forces them to play defense, which they obviously don't want to do.

Do everything you need to do to keep the passion alive and never forget that it is a privilege to do what you love.

It's an honor playing in this League and I have always felt that.

I played my heart out for the Bruins every shift, and that's all you can ask for.

The atmosphere was even greater than in Winnipeg last year. The place was almost packed for warm-ups, which was fun for us. You look at the group and you get your salute and you get the standing ovation and that means a lot to us.

The game is played out of instinct, but everyone on the ice has habits - good and bad. So the key to the game is to exploit the bad habits of your opponent.

For some reason, people think goalies need their rest.

As I get older, I think there's going to be more pressure on me, and there should be.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

It's one of those things that when you hear about the games played by Gordie Howe, you think it's one of those things that's untouchable. He was part of the League for so long. You wouldn't have dreamed of anybody touching that milestone. So when you're beating one of Mr. Hockey's records, it's impressive.

As I get older, I think I'm going to continue to be a better player and a better captain.

You can't be happy, taking away something I've worked on all my life to do and help my teammates and help my defense, ... It's just part of me, playing the puck. So, definitely, you can't be happy.

I was sitting at a friend's place in Michigan on vacation, having a beer on the patio. I was a little hefty. I said to myself: "Okay, I'm going to finish this weekend off strong, then after that I'm going to shut her down. I'm going to start taking better care of myself."

I have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it's a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you're in the NHL.

The captain is not in total command of the match. The man who is possessing the ball at a given time is the captain.

I have been able to give this confidence to the forwards, that 'Don't worry, Sreejesh is there at the back.' That is important to me.

We are better placed than Pakistan as we have been playing against top teams around the world. Pakistan on the other hand failed to qualify for the Olympics for the first time in their history.

I had a set schedule since I was 15, since I started playing junior hockey. When you don't have that sometimes you try to find something new and it's difficult.

It's an amazing honor to be the fourth Black hockey player to go into the Hall of Fame. It's a huge thrill.

When people come up to me and say, "I was at your Game 7 in the playoffs in Toronto," or, "I saw your first goal in the NHL," that triggers memories. But I don't sit around my kitchen table and tell my kids, "You know, one year I got 92 goals."

I'm just an average Canadian kid playing hockey.

I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.

My best friend had a hockey scholarship at Ohio State, so I would get a couple of pairs at the beginning of the season and send them down to him. They practised two hours a day. He'd skate in them for three weeks then ship them back.

In the '90s, when I started, it was still a rough-and-tumble, physical league. You take the hook and holding and a little bit of the physicality out of the game, and the speed ratcheted up two-fold.

I have nothing bad to say against the city of Edmonton. I liked it there. I had a fun year playing. It's something I'll remember for the rest of my life.

I see myself as a Shark.

Sometimes you get into fights if a teammate is getting taken advantage of, sometimes just from competing and you feel someone takes a cheap shot. It's just the intensity. It's an intense game, sometimes you just get too fired up and fights happen.

In a day when you can kind of choose where you can play, Northern California is the place for me.

The motivation will always be there to change the colour of the medal in Paris.

That's the hardest part of this whole process. The best part is picking the players and the worst part is telling basically five players they are not going to play tonight.

Goalkeepers are like wine, the longer you keep it, the better it tastes.