Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 3)

My face is my mask.

Canadian professional hockey goalie

I was hoping I could still be an underwear model after my career is over.

Canadian hockey player

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

Canadian sports writer & analyst

If you take your eye off Gretzky, he'll bank it off your skate, your back, your helmet or your wife. I could hang a nickel in the net and he'd hit it every time.

Canadian hockey player

Really, there are none. We traded him for a 10th round pick in a nine-round draft.

professional 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

Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor.

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

Hockey is the original extreme sport.

American hockey player

Playing goal is like being shot at.

professional hockey goalie

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

Canadian hockey player

Why is a puck called a puck? Because ‘dirty little bastard’ was taken.

Canadian hockey player

Or the day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.

Russian hockey player

Two people fighting is not violence in hockey. It might be in tennis or bowling, but it's not in hockey.

Canadian hockey goalie & coach

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

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

I didn't hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears.

professional hockey player

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

Canadian hockey player

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

Canadian hockey player

Aww, don't worry Doc, if that happens, I can always come back as a forward!

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

He shortened my career having to chase him around the ice all the time.

Canadian ice hockey player & coach