Top 1200 Hockey Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

To become a good player, you need talent. To become a great player, you need an attitude like Kohli.

People in my state, Kerala, have started playing hockey, which is very pleasing to see.

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'd love to see an openly gay player, a really, really good gay player come out.

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

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.

Usually when people eat sliders they're really hard because they're so small, so they're like hockey pucks.

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

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

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

My rooting interest these days is first and foremost competitive hockey, and secondly in officials not making a mistake.

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

Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to.

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

Your career goes fast, just a blink of an eye and you're an ex-baseball player, longer than you are a baseball player. I try not to think about it too much, but it seems like it does go fast.

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

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 wasn't allowed to play in some universities in the United States and out of twenty-five concerts, twenty-three were canceled unless I would substitute my black bass player for my old white bass player, which I wouldn't do.

Canada's known as a hockey country and now we've proven that we can also play football as well.

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.

If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

I admire Miken's exceptional engineering capabilities and was drawn to their passion for hockey and drive to be the best in all they do.

Hopefully I can be a good light in the hockey world and promote faith as something that's really real.

Why do Canadians like to do it doggie style? So they can both keep watching the hockey game

Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.

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

I'm Ross Barkley and I've got to create a better version of the player I am and show what I can do, not try to be like someone else. That's part of what I hope I can achieve here, to make people aware of who I am as a player and show everyone what I can do.

He's a big player, and the big players score the big goals and make the big contributions in the big games. That's what determines a great player. That's what Steven Gerrard is.

Rafa being 6-1 against Roger is not a source of pride for me. I'm happy that Rafa won the tournament, but I would have liked that Federer could have won the Grand Slam, because I think he's a phenomenal player. For me, he is the player I enjoy watching the most.

There is no question that in the '50s and '60s, black players got thrown at more. That's not a negative comment. It may come out that way, but that's the way it was. Hitting another player was part of the game; hitting a player in the head is not.

In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.

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

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

I'd sneak out and work on my game at midnight. The neighbors would call and say, turn the lights off. I went from the worst player to the first guy off the bench to the best player on my ninth-grade team, and then it took off.

Miloslav Mecir - best anticipation of any player in our generation for sure. The most flexible... and then crazy good hands. He is the best player in the world to not have won a slam, for sure. No question in my mind. He should have won three or four.

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

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

I think Paul Scholes is the best player in England. He's got the best skills, the best brain. No one can match him. There isn't a player of his mould anywhere in the world. Paul is irreplaceable.

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

I kind of had to convince myself when I was playing for the Washington Freedom that this was the highest level that I'm going to reach. 'I'm going to be a professional player, and I'm going to try and be the best one I can be, but it's maybe just not in my cards to be an international player. I won't play in a World Cup.' That was hard for me.

Scottie's game changed with where he was at physically. He wasn't the same player at 21 as he was at 30. Both he and Michael aged gracefully in this league and that's the beauty of being a professional player. You continue to grow and continue to change your game, but you do it to be just as effective.

A player can have all the quality and everything it takes to play for a big-six team or to play for the best teams in the world but then sometimes it happens and it doesn't work out. It's not because of the player or the club, sometimes it's just the environment, it's the wrong timing.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I don't believe there is such a thing as a 'born' soccer player. Perhaps you are born with certain skills and talents, but quite frankly it seems impossible to me that one is actually born to be an ace soccer player

I always feel like I'm coaching for my job. Just like when I was a player for nine years in Chicago. I came in every day wondering if I was going to get cut. This is no different. I come to work like I did as a player and that's to do the best I can.

Sometimes fans, sometimes even players, they don't know the game sometimes, and they look at numbers, or they use smoke-and-mirrors as far as who's a top 15 player, who's a top 20 player.

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.

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

LeBron James is the best player, hands down. He is easily moving into the territory of one of the best players of all time and may end up being the best player of all time.

People dislike Ronaldo because he's a great player, good-looking and has sex with all the ladies. They get jealous. The only bad thing about Ronaldo's life is Messi. But for him, he would've been the best player in the world for five years in a row.

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

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

Kobe Bryant was the reason I started playing basketball - always was and will be my favorite player of all time. I love the way he could get his shot off, his footwork down in the post, just his determination to be the best player.

Magic Johnson is the best player who plays on the ground, and Michael Jordan is the best player who plays in the air.

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