Top 16 Goalies Quotes & Sayings

Tremendous respect to hockey players. It's not easy every day, going out and getting hit, especially the goalies with all that padding on, that small puck, trying to track it - hand-eye co-ordination is a must. They're some amazing athletes.

A goalies job is to stop pucks,.... Well yeah, thats part of it, but you know what else is?... Youre trying to deliver a message to your team that things are OK back here. This end of the ice is pretty well cared for. You take it now and go. Go! Feel the freedom in order to feel that dynamic, creative, offensive player and go out and score....That was my job. And it was to try to deliver a feeling.

When I played in a 21-team league, there were six or seven goalies who were just average, and the equipment and pads were smaller. I came in the right era. I played for the right team. It was all speed, and creativity and imagination.

Goalies often react quickly to shots with no regard for what might happen to their body because we are trained to stop pucks first and ask questions later.

For some reason, people think goalies need their rest.

Goalies almost never get credit for winning a game, but they always get blamed for losing a game.

In the past, goalies weren't even part of the team. They had their own dressing room. They didn't speak with the other team members. They were lone warriors.

American Journalism is dead… They have behaved like hockey goalies in front of Barack Obama’s net.

When you're able to rely on four lines and every D and both goalies, it's big.

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

If our goalies were in a divorce case, they could sue for lack of support and be millionaires tomorrow.

I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs.

Back in the NBA's pre-mask era, ballers with busted noses or orbital bones had two unappealing options: Sit out and heal, or strap on a Michael Myers-looking opaque face shield closely related to that worn by hockey goalies.

Wins are the most important measure for goalies, I think. Certainly it's a great accomplishment.

The goal is too small and the goalies are too big.

I had 11 years at the club, and even if it was a hard road for me, and I suffered through my time at Arsenal, today I am happy and I tried to show young goalies how work pays off.