Top 522 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Ice hockeies - Page 6

These are tough games to play. We shared the puck and we wanted everyone to get a chance to score. Tough games to play in. We want close games. That is why we train so hard. We want to show our fans some even games.

I used everything as a positive to make me a better person and a better player. I have no regrets. Everytime I had to play a big game, I played a big game. I used some of the skepticism as a positive and motivation.

You won't go the hell for smoking, you'll just smell like you've been there.

Hockey is not a sport - it's a disease.

Every time you sustain a head injury, the risk gets higher and higher. I always said that if there ever was a point where the risk was more than minimal, I would stop playing.

I’m definitely excited to have a fresh start. Talking to the coach [Bob Hartley], talking to management, they want me to have success, and that definitely makes your life easier. It keeps your mind free to just go out there and play as good as you can, instead of worrying about giving up bad goals and having to prove yourself every night – not just to the public, but to the coaching staff and everybody else. That’s definitely a nicer way to feel comfortable, if you know they have your back.

I want to keep growing. I should take a couple steps every year if I want to be one of the best players in the league.

I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath.

Independent publishing gives everyone a voice, and those with a voice to which people inherently want to listen will find a way to the top.

Last I heard, I was being traded to Washington for Monica Lewinsky.

If we can continue to win, hopefully they can falter a little down the stretch.

I love playing three, four times a week. That's what I've always wanted to do. In college we played Friday, Saturday, then had the whole week to think about it.

I'm not a pacifist. I do believe that, unfortunately, war is necessary.

I don't want to talk about today's market anymore because nobody can make sense of what the market is. It's all over the map. There's a bunch of lunatics out there throwing money away. I'm sick and tired of it. It's lunacy. Punch me in the head and tell me I'm stupid, but that's the way I feel. There's no sense to it anymore.

Put the kids in with a few old pappy guys who still like to win and the combination is unbeatable.

Well, I've got something to tell you, In my last life I was a Spanish Count and one of the things I loved to do when I was a count in Spain was take all the commoners, line them up against a wall and throw rocks at them, being a professional hockey goalie is punishment for my bad habits in past lives.

If I had a bad game and we lost I take it very seriously. I feel if I play a good game that other guys will follow and that will help us win more games. And if I don't, I take it upon myself as being my fault.

Someone who plays hard every shift, it's pretty admirable for a young guy.

Ovechkin does not play like a Russian. He plays like an NHL player.

I don't consider myself as very talented. If I don't work, I'll be very bad.

How much does it cost to entice a dope-smoking UNIX system guru to Dayton?

Everybody wants to play in the playoffs. You don't know how good the good times were until you hit the bad times. But sometimes success is just around the corner.

My wife and I practice "Doggy Style:" I beg, she rolls over.

Just playing more, I'm more comfortable. A big part is the boys are giving me a lead a lot of nights. Playing more has just let me be more comfortable in different situations in the game.

God gave me eyes so that I might see you, and God gave you eyes, so that I might see myself.

Never let anyone steal your joy.

Games in hand are a good thing only if you win them.

If you do not pay for a service, you are the product they sell. So it ever has been.

I had to pinch myself seeing the grassy knoll and the book suppository building.

I didn't know the draft was in alphabetical order.

Trust me, I'm a really nice guy.

I think we're really good about pushing each other in practice and we have high tempo and I feel like we have some of the best players in the world so just competing against one another and getting in there and pushing each other around and getting ready for that physical style of game coming up, we have to play hard and pretend it's a game.

When I do something, I like it when it's perfect. I'm kind of hard on myself that way.

I don't remember those early playoff games. Keep it positive. I'm a different player. More focused. I know how important it is to score in the playoffs.

We don't care what that bug-eyed fat walrus has to say.

I usually call the new guy and let him know where I like to sit on the bus, tell him ways he can stay out of my way, make sure he knows not to touch any of my stuff.

I want to score 50 goals. It's my dream.

Things don't always happen the way we planned. As we learn to trust in God's plan, we will see that He has our best interests at heart.

I don't believe there is such thing as a just or unjust war; there are avoidable and unavoidable wars. Sometimes you have no choice but to go to war.

The first thing that jumps out in my mind is David versus Goliath. That's one of the first stories we ever learn as kids. That's one of the most inspirational stories about courage. David stood in the face of terrible odds and defeated the giant. I love reading that story to my boys. Being courageous is doing something isn't easy or fun but you do it because it's the right thing to do.

It was something that we learned more and more about as we got older in different chapters of our lives on how important the victory was, not as a sporting event but as a victory in the Cold War.

The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with confidence to the future.

Roses are red, violets are blue, they got ten, we only got two.

You have a good life when there are things to smile about today...and to motivate you for tomorrow.

If Jim Mora loses his job with the Falcons, it most likely will be because of wins and losses. Problem is, when you work for such an image-conscious owner and in the most fickle of sports towns, random acts of dumbness tend to shrink a guy's margin for error.

I want to get better and make it last as long as I can.

The mark of a good team is how it reacts when things aren't going in its favor.

Without the support of my mom, Marlene, I would not be the person I am. She has been my main supporter throughout my career, and I owe everything to her. This is a small way that we, as players, can pay tribute to her and other hockey moms, and it is all for a good cause.

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

I never want to be the poster guy. It's not me.

Eighteen years ago, my left knee I hurt. I've never had a knee injury in the pros.

I don't think you ever stopped Bobby Orr. You contained Bobby Orr, but you never stopped him. When we played the Bruins and Bobby had to give up the puck, it was a good play.

Think Give. Not Get. Nothing has the power to positively change your world more.

The GLORY is in the TEAM, NOT the INDIVIDUAL.

I'm not a reflex goalie. I try to make as many stops as possible with with my stomach.

You're really playing against yourself. You have to learn what you can control and what you can't, and not let what you can't control affect your confidence.

When Bobby came into the league he was a rushing defenseman, a goal scorer and a point getter. He just opened the game up to more offence and that's the way the game is played now.

Ah, my sister used to hit me harder.

Don't ever let your memories be bigger than your dreams.

When you have bacon and eggs for breakfast, the chicken makes a contribution, the pig makes a commitment.