Top 1200 Hockey Fan Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

My wife likes the hockey smell because its the smell of a warrior.

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.

It was either football or hockey. I chose football, and I think it's worked out OK so far.

I'm proud to be Russian. We have probably the best country in the world. Everything is the best: hockey players, cars, girls.

I genuinely was just such a fan of the books. When I heard that this was on the cards, I've got to do this; I've got to get involved with this. I'm such a Philip Pullman fan and actually his philosophies, morals and the way he looks at the world. He does what he does brilliantly as a writer. He writes children's stories with major adult themes and major ideas about making the right choices.

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.

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 that in all aspects of the game, especially in professional sports but specifically in hockey, we want to grow the game.

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.

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!'

'Pitchfork' said something like, 'Michael Imperioli wrote a book that sounds like Lou Reed fan fiction,' which maybe it is. It's fiction, and I'm a fan. But it's not about me, and it's not a Lou Reed book.

For us [hockey] is an opportunity, myself and my brothers have an opportunity to do something special.

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.

A soccer star is on the field for two hours. In hockey, your star player is on the ice for 20 minutes.

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'm a big fan of PlayStation 4. I like watching movies, TV shows, comedy specials, and listening to comedy albums and music. I'm also a big fan of getting coffee with a friend or catching up on the phone with people I've known for years, people who keep me grounded, who knew me before.

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.

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.

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.

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!

I was not a gigantic fan of 'The A-Team' as a kid. I was a huge 'Miami Vice' fan. So for me, not necessarily to say that I put a 'Miami Vice'ish spin on 'The A-Team,' but for me, what I was most intrigued by was this notion of these four guys, these four kind of special operators.

I'm a huge fan of Greta Gerwig, and working with her was also a dream come true. She was one of those directors who, when people asked me, 'Who do you wanna work with one day?' I'd say Greta Gerwig. I've always been a fan of mumblecore and her films, and so to work with her was just so much fun.

He's a gritty hockey player, he's got good vision, he's an intelligent player.

I don't just want to be a drag-flicker. I want to be become a complete hockey player.

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.

I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire.

My wife likes the hockey smell because it's the smell of a warrior.

I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work.

Women are playing [hockey] because they love it, not because they’re trying to be a woman in a man’s game.

I spend up to two hours a day on correspondence. Hearing from fans on the Internet and being able to directly respond to the fan base is exciting. You can cut out the middle man like the fan club... before a recent appearance in Tyler, Texas, I had fans reaching out on MySpace offering their lake house, Mavericks tickets. It was amazing.

The Catholic church had a huge profound influence on me in that as you get older you realize that you can't blame everything; that there is good and bad, and things get misdirected. So I would call myself a black Catholic. I still have this attraction to it because all religions I'm not a fan of. I'm a fan of sort of belief in spirituality. So I would be into Christ rather than the Catholics.

I'm back in Boston. I own an outdoor deck hockey rink, and I own a boxing gym here also.

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.

I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.

[In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.

An avowed homosexual, that would never be accepted in hockey - never! Because it's a milieu where everyone is often naked.

I wasn't a fan of the Sixers. My dad was a big Mo Cheeks fan, and he wanted me to be drafted by the Sixers. My thing was, if that could make my dad happy, then that would make me happy, you know what I mean?

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.

The Himalayan glaciers, China's trade surplus, Olympic ice hockey - the world is full of pressing subjects that people never consult me about.

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.

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've always been a Marvel fan, always been a 'Deadpool' fan.

I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!

You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.

I'm a dad first and foremost, then it goes hockey and then work, in that order.

I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football.

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.

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've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff.

A nontraditional hockey market is turning into more of a traditional market. We're now a fabric of Nashville.

I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff

I played hockey my whole life until my ambition outstripped my ability, which happens to most Canadians around 15 or 16 years old.

Being a ballet dancer isn't cool. Football, boxing, hockey... they're cool. And you make more money.

Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry.

Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.

There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed.

The message growth rate in Brazil - it's not like a hockey stick: it's like a vertical line.

Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all, it keeps them off the street.

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.

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.