Top 1200 Good Hockey Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

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

My son William and my daughter Amy are both really into their hockey now and I can enjoy watching that.

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

Hockey is my favorite because I'm from Michigan. I used to figure-skate and root for the Red Wings.

No matter who the captain is, on the hockey pitch it's the goalkeeper who is leading the side because we have the best view of the field.

Football is getting bigger but ice hockey is still the biggest sport back home.

It was always so nice to step away from figure skating and school with hockey. To this day I'm still a huge fan.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.

This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.

Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.

Before I broke my back, I was really looking forward to playing hockey at the University of Michigan. That was my biggest goal.

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'

I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.

There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

There are some guys you definitely would not want dating your sister - especially hockey players.

It's true that in Canada, we pride ourselves on the game, and we like to think we're the dominant hockey nation in the world.

Halifax is a big hockey city. Everyone loves the game here and really enjoys anyone who has had success.

When it comes to hockey, it's been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level.

Hockey players are given as much respect as any other sportsperson in our country.

You learn by playing a great team, and I'm talking about character things, not hockey technique.

The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

But once I left home to play hockey, it was a commitment to be the best I could be and try to make the NHL.

I play hockey in a pickup league. I grew up playing, so it's nice to get on the ice whenever I can.

I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.

I played 15 years of hockey, and I got more injured doing two weeks of cheer camp.

For me, it's not a struggle to go out and play hockey. Under pressure, I feel it to a certain extent... but, I'm not scared of it.

I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.

Women can do anything men can do. Except math, chess, running, jumping, lifting stuff, fixing things, making money, hockey, surfing, driving, making decisions, being tall, taking out the garbage, tipping, fishing, being funny (on purpose), reading a map, listening to good bands, writing, running the country, inventing anything important, or being fun to hang out with.

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

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

I was playing a relatively high level of hockey, and I thought that's what I wanted to do. But I had my first movie audition, and I was hooked.

I grew up in Wisconsin loving hockey. I mean, I started when I was three years old on skates.

I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick. -Gemma Doyle Trilogy

Sports like baseball, basketball, and hockey develop muscles. That's why Americans have the strongest eyes in the world.

When I started playing hockey, I realised the entire game relies on your back- you have to bend to play it.

We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.

If I learned one thing by playing professional hockey for thirty-two years, it's that you have to love what you do. And that's not just true for sports.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

I was in the football, rugby, cricket and hockey teams at school; bit of squash. Tennis obviously.

I still have my teeth. I don't want to lose them at age 61 in some hockey game.

Sources also confirm that there is no one left in Canada who can remember when hockey was a simple game, played for fun.

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.

I think I am the first hockey player in India to have a wax statue of his own. It is a great honour.

I adore Twitter to the end of time. It is a wonderful thing, mainly for professional hockey coverage.

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.

Every Hockey Canada event, the first day you just do a thousand interviews. You get used to it.

Where I grew up, hockey was the sport that 90 per cent of black kids at school played.

My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.

I am extremely grateful to have had the opportunity to play hockey, especially when there weren't equal opportunities as there are now. But at times, it was challenging.

Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them.

I actually played hockey my whole life, all the way up until ninth grade.

Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.

I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.

I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?