Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 11)

If you’re not going to score goals, at least make people hate you.

professional hockey player

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

Canadian hockey player & coach

He's so strong, he doesn't call the cattle in… he carries them in.

(1928 – ) Canadian professional ice hockey player

Some guys play hockey… Gretzky plays 40 mph chess.

American sportswriter

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

(1909 – 1973) American sports journalist

I'd rather fight than score.

Canadian hockey player

If I get run into again, I'm taking someone with me. I lost one knee. I'll take a head if it happens again.

Canadian hockey goaltender

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

War is hell, but expansion is worse.

hockey coach

Anytime you hold Dallas to a one touchdown, it's not all bad.

Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager

My wife made me a millionaire. Before she divorced me, I had three million.

professional hockey player

People didn't know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.

sports announcer

Actually we’re trying to get it to flood both locker rooms, just to be fair.

Nassau Coliseum general manager

Lunch is on me.

(1969 – ) Canadian ice hockey player & executive

We've made a final offer. We hope [player] Ziggy Palffy will come to his senses. We have NO hope his agent will.

American player, coach & general manager

To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

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

We hate each other. People assume that we respect each other because we’re black. We don’t.

Canadian hockey player & commentator

He asked me if he could marry Carrie before he asked her.  I said: You want to what?’ I thought he was just going to ask for more ice time.

Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager

I don't want to get into a 'He said, she said' with the refs… I'm the 'he.'

Canadian hockey player