Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 3)

Hockey would be a great game… if played in the mud.

(1909 – 1973) American sports journalist

Ever since he’s been a little boo-aw.

Canadian hockey coach

If I knew the answer to that I'd bet $10,000 on the game and retire from coaching.

Montreal Canadiens coach

Call them pros, call them mercenaries – but in fact they are just grown-up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or flooded corner lot that hockey is the greatest thrill of all.

Canadian hockey player

It was like skating inside a pop can.

Canadian hockey player

Trade Steve Yzerman? That's like asking me if I want to trade my son Jason for the kid next door.

Canadian hockey coach & politician

We raced the other day and it wasn't a photo finish… it was an oil painting.

Canadian hockey player

Reporter to Brett Hull: If you were a tree, what kind of a tree would you be?

Hull: Shoe

Canadian-born American hockey player

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept. 

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

This type of injury is very painful. Especially when it hurts.

Canadian hockey coach

Get used to this phrase: “How could both referees have missed that?”

Canadian sports writer & analyst

A fast body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.


(1897 – 1976) American novelist, short story & sports writer

If he had another hair on his back, he'd be up a tree.

Canadian hockey player

I told her they must be all sold out.

Canadian hockey player

I had all my own teeth and I wanted to keep it that way.

American baseball player

No big deal. I just watched the game. I had the best seats of anyone in the crowd. It was awesome.

Czech hockey player

Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying.

Canadian hockey player

Life is just a place where we spend time between games.

(1925 – 1990) Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager

The only way we could have, was to have shot him before the game started.

Canadian hockey player & coach

The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.

Boston Bruins general manager

I will personally challenge anyone who wants to get rid of fighting to a fight.

American-Canadian hockey executive