Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 4)

Was Wayne Gretzky sick?

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

(1961 – ) Canadian hockey player & owner
Hockey Sports

Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental. 

Canadian hockey player & sports reporter
Hockey Sports

There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.

Slovak-born Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

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

Canadian sports writer & analyst
Hockey Sports

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
Hockey Sports

Hockey is the original extreme sport.

American hockey player
Hockey Sports

We are the sort of people who make health insurance popular.

Canadian hockey goaltender
Health Hockey Sports

I wanted to go through the TV and strangle Terry Crisp. I wanted to punch Chris Gratton in the face. And when Petr Klima took a penalty, I wanted to send him back to Czechoslovakia.

Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager
Hockey Sports

Winning is always fun, but the car is more important.

Finnish hockey player
Hockey Sports

He brings something special. I don’t know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn’t understand his answer.

(1961 – ) Canadian hockey player & owner
Hockey Sports

You hate to lose your teeth and the game, too.

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

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

Canadian hockey coach
Hockey Misspokements Sports

Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded – accordion-style – back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.

(1966 – ) American journalist & novelist
Hockey Sports

It takes brains; it's not like forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense… on defense you have to be thinking.

American hockey player
Hockey Sports

Early in the year, after a bad game, I said to my kids in the car, this is my last year and the next day I was getting phone calls from the school about whether I was retiring.  And that was in October.

(1961 – ) Canadian hockey player & owner
Hockey Sports

The three important elements of hockey are: forecheck, backcheck and paycheck.

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

Every time I get injured, my wife ends up pregnant.

Canadian hockey player & general manager
Hockey Sports

It would have been worse if we hadn't blocked the kick after Toronto's second touchdown.

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

I don't order fries with my club sandwich.

Canadian hockey player
Body Hockey Sports

Tell him he’s Wayne Gretzky.

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports