Top 522 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Ice hockeies - Page 8

I don't see this as Marty [St. Louis] replacing me. I see this as Marty getting the opportunity he deserves.

Football, you can go out and buy a football and play it in your backyard. Basketball, you can go out and play it in the schoolyard or in your driveway. Baseball, you get a glove and a bat and a ball and you go out and play in the neighborhood. You can't do that in hockey.

It's disappointing being a Canadian and having friends on that team but that's the way it goes. It's the Olympics. It's disappointing for every Canadian but over the years you've seen the parity with all the teams because it's the best players in the world.

It's north and south pole. When you win you feel great, but when you lose it, it's like you've lost 10 games in a row.

We have to play as a team at our best every night.

Definitely very proud, very honoured to be Canadian. To be able to represent your country in Canada and win a gold medal on home soil is an honour in itself. There is no doubt in my mind that we were prepared for whatever it was going to take. And I think that we battled hard and we had no doubt in our mind that if we went out there and played Canadian hockey that we would come out successful.

No. The real heroes wear camo. I'm not one of them.

Hockey taught me to challenge myself and be the best I can be on and off the ice.

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

The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.

Sometimes wisdom comes from suffering, and sometimes suffering comes from wisdom.

My parents, especially my dad, had a big influence on my hockey career. He introduced me to the game when I was younger, and I stuck with it.

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

Requesting a change of environment was an extremely difficult decision. After a tremendous amount of reflection and numerous conversations with my family, it made the most sense to seek a change.

I feel more comfortable confidence-wise. You get to the NHL, and you're nervous about trying things. With experience, you're not as afraid of being creative.

My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire life was geared around getting there and winning gold.

Every year, you try to be more consistent. It's a long year and it's tough to do. But those great players do find it. That's something that I try to do.?

I told her they must all be sold out.

I want to be the best I can be no matter what the circumstances. That’s how I was raised.

Oh, yes, I love sleepless nights.

I found that I really enjoy helping people. I enjoy getting to know people and helping them in whatever endeavor they're trying to commit to.

We've got a lot of guys in here that are playing for pride and contracts and different things. Now that we are out of the race, guys are playing looser and you can see it in our play.

It's going to be intense. This is what we played the whole tournament for, we had to play an extra game but I think that's a good thing, we got some line combinations working together fairly well now.

I have a brother who practiced every bit as much as I did, but he never made pro. In order to make it as a pro you have to develop your God-given skills.

If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players.

When everybody compares me to Mario Lemieux, it's an honor.

We don't want you at the rink, we don't want you in the stadium, we don't want you to watch hockey.

We've been gifted with the power of choice...in our actions, our thoughts, and our words. The quality of our lives gets better or worse depending on which direction we go with our choices.

In my opinion, one should think one knows what one knows, but one should not think others know what one knows; similarly, in my opinion, one should think one should know what one knows, but one should not think others should know what one knows.

It makes it very hard for us to warn people about the wolves when the leaders of the sheep are associating with the wolves.

The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.

Seeing Ed Belfour have expectations higher than anyone else of him shows the kind of competitor he is. I would love to incorporate a high level of professionalism into my game.

I'll still run him on the ice tomorrow.

Everyone thinks, "Oh, it'd be easy to just go scout a game." It's not. Because you end up watching the game and not actually focusing [on scouting].

Hillary Clinton is a tough person. She's diplomatic, and I would've felt safe with her as the president. Now we have an individual who doesn't know the diplomatic process and refuses to learn it. Even President Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again," is a very offensive statement. Only a person who has never studied American history would say "great again." It took us a very long time to get to the progressive nature we're at. We still have a great deal of work to do.

I don't score highlight reel goals. They come from work, from getting into the corners, getting a little dirty.?

Just charge me with the usual.

Sometimes when I make a good save, I yell out, 'Woo-Hooo!' I'm not sure why, but it just feels good. I don't think I scare anyone or freak anyone out when I do it. I just like to holler when I make a tough stop.

I didn't have all the expectations and the publicity. It probably made me work harder and learn more. It was a blessing in disguise.

Do that which will make you happiest both now and in the future.

About 4000 men, women and teenagers regularly venture out to play a game in -20 weather and stinging prairie winds. Bundled in sweaters and snow suits, balaclavas on their heads and suction cupped shoes on their feet. They slip and slide across the outdoor hockey rinks chasing a soft rubber puck in the Sponge Hockey Capital of the World.

War is horrible no matter what. There's going to be atrocities, there's going to be horrible things that happen in war.

I'm on the third line. I'm a crasher. I know my role. I'm just trying to help. I'm not stupid enough to think I'm great out there.

Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor.

You live to play in the playoffs. It's like your heart is ripped out.

I got to score goals and get points. I got to get on the board somehow.

When I signed in Ottawa two years ago, I felt it was to be an integral part of the team. Over the last two years and more recently over the past year, I feel my role was diminished. This past season, it diminished a lot more. “I would like the opportunity to go somewhere where I can play to the best of my capabilities and be the player that I can be.

Many times I had to dig deep and perform. All of that adversity helped me and drove me to want to be the best.

Being compared to him [Ron Francis] is pretty cool for me, but I know I am a long way away. I feel really comfortable at center, being able to roam the ice and do your thing.

Typical of most French guys in our league with a visor on, running around and playing tough and not back anything up.

I love telling myself jokes. I think I'm a riot.

It's just that [the Hawks have made] a lot of changes. A lot of their great players have moved on. They have a lot of new faces and a lot of young guys who are going to be a part of this team for a long time. It'll take time. They've got a nice little core to start with.

I think as women on the national team, you start your hockey career and you also are starting to plan what you're going to do when it's over, because we don't make the millions of dollars and you have to have a life after.

Bettman is an asshole. A frikkin asshole. I think he's ruined the game of hockey. He's supposed to be impartial. He's supposed to speak for the good of the league, but in my opinion, he's strictly behind the owners. Those 1996 rule changes are a joke

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.

Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.

The Monmouth-Ocean area is . . . always in the best-areas-to-live lists.

I basically learned that you must get out of your losses immediately. It's not merely a matter of how much you can afford to risk on a given trade, but you also have to consider how many potential future winners you might miss because of the effect of the larger loss on your mental attitude and trading size.

Win now, and we'll walk together forever.

Some guys are more worried about their Vegas trip at the end of the season than playing the games, than playing every minute of the games. Quite frankly, I don't care about your Vegas trip right now.