Top 1200 Good Hockey Quotes & Sayings - Page 9
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven't been skating as a kid it's impossible to play - and I wasn't a skater.
I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football.
We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'
I'm a hockey coach and a single mother of two who commutes. I don't watch TV. I watch news, and that's it!
For us [hockey] is an opportunity, myself and my brothers have an opportunity to do something special.
We've met a ton of pro hockey players, got to know them, our music plays in their locker rooms. We've always taken pride in that.
It was either football or hockey. I chose football, and I think it's worked out OK so far.
First of all, it's a curse. Voodoo. As soon as a guy gets put on the cover of The Hockey News, it's like Sports Illustrated. He goes right into the tank.
Hockey is still my favourite sport. I think that might be part of what makes me successful. I don't live or die by racquetball, so I can detach from it when needed. I'm all about all sports.
Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.
[In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.
That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
I'm back in Boston. I own an outdoor deck hockey rink, and I own a boxing gym here also.
One of the key qualities that you need to be a great hockey player is fantastic anticipation and feel for the game - if you know where the puck is going before it is hit, that is half the battle.
When you're in the hockey team, you're treated like a VIP. There are people around you looking after you, making sure you get 7-8 hours of undisturbed sleep every day.
I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire.
Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry.
Baseball can have its perfect dimensions, its undeniable drama, but hockey, for all its wrongs, still has the potential to deliver a momentary, flashing magic that is found in no other game we play.
I saw a hockey game where they threw the puck aside and just started fighting. I saw that, and I'm like, 'So I'm the thug?'
I'm a dad first and foremost, then it goes hockey and then work, in that order.
I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.
An avowed homosexual, that would never be accepted in hockey - never! Because it's a milieu where everyone is often naked.
I am addicted to hockey now. I've seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.
We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games.
You have to realize I grew up in a real hockey town. And there I was wearing bow ties and watching the gayest movies on the face of Earth, like 'Clueless.'
I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.
The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven’t been skating as a kid it’s impossible to play - and I wasn’t a skater.
There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed.
I don't just want to be a drag-flicker. I want to be become a complete hockey player.
I can't remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in baseball now than they do in hockey.
If you're a sports fan, it is really cool when you see the best-on-best for hockey at the Olympics.
It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.
My wife likes the hockey smell because it's the smell of a warrior.
The message growth rate in Brazil - it's not like a hockey stick: it's like a vertical line.
A nontraditional hockey market is turning into more of a traditional market. We're now a fabric of Nashville.
A soccer star is on the field for two hours. In hockey, your star player is on the ice for 20 minutes.
When I was at the end of middle school and the beginning of high school, I fell in love with hockey in a serious way.
Before I was 14, I wanted to be a singer, an actor, or a hockey player. By 15, I knew I was going to be a singer.
I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.
I'm proud to be Russian. We have probably the best country in the world. Everything is the best: hockey players, cars, girls.
The Himalayan glaciers, China's trade surplus, Olympic ice hockey - the world is full of pressing subjects that people never consult me about.
Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.
I played hockey my whole life until my ambition outstripped my ability, which happens to most Canadians around 15 or 16 years old.
I just heard George W. Bush's new plan for airline security. From here on out, every plane will now have its own hockey dad.
My dream is to see athletes also getting the same recognition, fame, success and money as cricketers, footballers and hockey players get in India.
Well, I come from a poor family. My father is a farmer. When I started playing, I wasn't privileged enough to afford hockey pads and a kit, that was out of my reach.
I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work.
My wife likes the hockey smell because its the smell of a warrior.
I didn't know that I'd like it this much, coaching both boys and... seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice.
If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.
When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'
Being a ballet dancer isn't cool. Football, boxing, hockey... they're cool. And you make more money.
I think that in all aspects of the game, especially in professional sports but specifically in hockey, we want to grow the game.
Women are playing [hockey] because they love it, not because they’re trying to be a woman in a man’s game.
I was sporty in high school. I played tennis and hockey, and was basketball captain. Then I went to university and stopped doing sport and started eating ice cream.
I grew up playing hockey and baseball, so I wish I had time to get back into it, but living in L.A. and North Carolina, you have to take advantage of the golf.
I think whenever anyone asked me why I wanted to be a hockey player, that's where it all started, watching the Winnipeg Jets play as a young kid.
I really wanted to play hockey. My mom thought figure skates looked easier to use, so she put me in the learn-to-skate program.
I grew up playing football. I'm a huge hockey and football fan.
It wasn't until I was at 39 that I joined my first real hockey team. Which was great. I scored a couple of goals here and there, but I wasn't the most graceful thing you've ever seen.
