Top 148 Nhl Quotes & Sayings

I think any time you play your first NHL game, you remember that.

To be a general manager in the NHL, you need to be smart, tough and ruthless.

In the NHL, 95 percent of success is confidence.

Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL.

This is really a new NHL and it's built on speed and young guys.

Ever since I was a kid and all the time I have played in the NHL, NHL players have played in the Olympic Games.

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

I was lucky enough to have a hockey career in the NHL.

When I got drafted I just wanted to play one game in the NHL. I didn't really care anything about winning.

We have so many guys in the NHL who can lead by example and I embrace being a role model for a lot of kids.

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

There's too much parity in the NHL.

Whenever we got the chance to watch a game with my dad, it was like watching video with an NHL coach.

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.

Playing 10 years in the NHL, almost 600 games, there's going to be some wear and tear for everybody.

I was always a decent hockey player, but I'd have never made the NHL.

I need to see where I am physically and practicing with NHL players is the best way to find that out.

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.

It's good for the NHL to implement different things - the 3-on-3, money that'll go to players - to try to get us to play at a higher level.

It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.

When you're a young kid and you come into the NHL, you're given money and fame, to an extent, especially in Boston.

I feel more comfortable confidence-wise. You get to the NHL, and you're nervous about trying things. With experience, you're not as afraid of being creative.

Growing up, I was always the only black kid on my team and (sometimes) I'd get questions from my friends when I'd say, `I want to be in the NHL' and they'd say, `Well, there are no black people or not very many in the NHL' and as a kid, you'd wonder why. But overall, I didn't really face any racial difficulties. Nothing too bad or too lasting.

The NHL is the best in the world, it has the best players. I love the NHL.

Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.

We're concerned how gambling and betting affects the NHL game and changes the perception of and challenges the integrity of the NHL game.

NHL clubs have not wanted to go to the Olympics, and we have been saying that for months if not years.

My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.

I'm a die-hard NHL fan. I can't get enough.

The NHL's opinion of itself is so high.... Let them get drunk on their greatness. We'll see how many Euros look our way.

The greatest athletes in the world play in the NHL there is no question about that.

You never have enough competition at any position, ... Several of the players listed at right wing have played center in the NHL, like Trevor Linden. Some can play both wings. I've been skating on a line with the Sedin twins. They are a lot more skilled than some people give them credit. Look at their point totals and they are right up there in their point-per-minute averages. My job will be to complement them and try to get our line to provide secondary scoring behind the big line of Naslund, Bertuzzi and Morrison. Those guys look good and I expect they'll be the top line in the NHL again.

You get drafted by an NHL team, you're kind of living the good life. So, I mean for me, it's all awesome.

I hope one day I will be able to play in a game in the NHL, not just practice.

I think it would be unbelievable to play in the NHL as an 18-year-old.

Whenever I won an award in the NHL, I thought of my father and the pride he would get in reading about it and having people mention it to him.

My dreams of NHL glory were never fulfilled so I had to settle for politics instead.

Maybe playing in the NHL would be pretty nice, but that's more of a pipe dream for me.

If I played the game any other way, you wouldn't know my name. You wouldn't care enough to hate me because I wouldn't be in the NHL.

There's going to be a point in time when I can go to a NHL game in Nashville with my grandkids. That's really special.

I just want to comment on how It's become a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in Love with my sloppy seconds

It doesn't matter whether I'm in an NHL arena, at a local rink, or on a sheet of ice in the middle of a baseball stadium: when I'm around the game, I feel at home.

The fighting in the NHL, especially, and, I think, in some of the minor leagues, it's usually the loudest and the most excited the crowd gets during the entire the game.

The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand; the NHL has less to lose, and it's in their best interest to generate buzz any way they can.

You look at the best players in the game - Wayne Gretzky, Bobby Orr - they didn't sit on the couch and then one day join the NHL. They worked on their game. Their talent was perseverance, dedication. Those are talents to me; that's what gets you to the NHL.

It's not good enough just to hold your head high because you're one of the highest-paid players in the NHL. It's not good enough to be one of the most popular guys in the NHL or to have a social media following. What are you trying to accomplish?

If I was on a third or fourth line I would probably be in the NHL, because you don't have to produce every night.

Adding a player like Jack Hughes, a lot of teams in the NHL would dream of that talent.

The NHL is the best league in the world, but it's a grind. You sometimes forget, especially if you are losing, or missing the playoffs ... how fun this game can be.

I'm in the NHL and I'll take whatever reputation I can to get here and to stay here.

I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was.

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 always watch NHL, NBA, NFL games and don't miss tennis and golf.

We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.

All time faves would be 'Smash TV,' 'NHL Hockey,' 'Grand Theft Autos,' 'NBA Lives,' 'Sonic.'

It's a dream come true to be part of an NHL team, to be a regular in the NHL, to live the life, to make the money and do all that stuff.

I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs.

I'm very proud of our NHL players. I think they all handle themselves extremely well and they all work really hard.

I was fortunate to have talent, play on a good team and make the NHL.

If the world somehow actually ends tomorrow, let all forget about the Mayans and just agree it`s the NHL`s fault