Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 2)

We're looking forward to building the type of team the Rangers are able to buy.

Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager

Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.

(1958 – ) Canadian hockey player & announcer

Kerry, don’t sell yourself short. You’ve made far worse calls than that.

hockey broadcaster

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

Canadian hockey player

That’s so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my @#%#%@ clothes.

professional hockey player

Yes, the guy can score you 40 goals… what I don't want is him causing 60.

Canadian hockey player & broadcaster

Goaltenders are three sandwiches shy of a picnic. From the moment primitive man lurched erect, he survived on the principle that when something hard and potentially lethal comes toward you at great velocity, get the hell out of it's path.

Canadian hockey player

When he gets mad, it's like he's in another world. He'll look at you with those big eyes and they'll be going around in circles.

professional hockey player

They're like two bulldogs eating lunch off a Brillo pad!

Canadian hockey player

They say you're not a coach in the league till you've been fired. I must be getting pretty good.

Canadian hockey player & coach

They say something to me sometimes. But I don't understand all the words yet. So I smile at them and then I go score goal.

Russian hockey player

Hockey is a game played by six good players and a home team.

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

Canadian hockey player

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

Canadian hockey player & general manager

The first thing I would do when I saw Bobby [Orr] coming down at me was to say a little prayer if I had time.  I’m sure I wasn’t the only goalie who did that.

Canadian professional hockey player

So what? I can play Smoke on the Water.

American hockey goaltender

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

Canadian hockey player

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

Canadian hockey player & commentator

He scored hockey by the number of fights. If you lost seven to one, but won five fights, he figured you won the game.

Canadian businessman, sportsman & owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs

Since my kids were born, I put on a shield. I wanted to keep on seeing them.

Russian hockey player

The place was cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.

professional baseball player