Top 162 Nhl Lockout Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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

A lot of people think that as a player, during the lockout, you just have your whole day free. It's not like that - especially for me. I wake up everyday, train in the morning from 9 a.m. to about 2 p.m. Then I have a business meeting here, have to meet this person there, it's non-stop for me.

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

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

During the lockout year, my focus was the basics, sharpening my moves, my fundamentals.

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

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

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

Players are ready to play, We're not on strike. It's a lockout.

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

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

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

A lot of players know I've been around 13 years and this is my second lockout. I got a lot of respect. I know what's going on both for the league and the union.

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

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.

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

Due to the NFL lockout, I'm excited to be able to follow my childhood dream of playing for a Major League Soccer team.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

The reason that I met my wife was because the lockout of '99. There were about six months where there was no film and no work and I had a social life.

The hockey lockout of 1994 - 1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering... and can now get down to some serious bloodshed!

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

There's too much parity in the NHL.

I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Kim Kardashian is single again. Hey, great. Maybe that will give the NBA players something to do during the lockout.

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

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

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

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

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

The NBA has a voice that's why they have a lockout. The NFL has a voice that's why they had a lockout. Boxing is the only sport that's individually represented the individual people - Managers, Promoters and Boxers.

We didn't see [the NBA lockout] as a victory at all. It was far from what we set it out to accomplish in bargaining, but I thought it was a fair compromise.

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.

The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us.

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.