Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 4)

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

Why doesn’t the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

Canadian hockey 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

My goal is to deny yours.

I think they bring me luck… I guess I'll have to like seafood now.

Canadian ice hockey goaltender

The Rangers…

Canadian professional hockey goalie

This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.

American singer & songwriter (Aerosmith)

A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can’t hit one another. 

(1909 – 1973) American sports journalist

I'd rather fight than score.

Canadian hockey player

I think he knows all my tricks. Or the fact I don't have any tricks.

(1969 – ) Canadian ice hockey player & executive

Biologically, I'm 10; chronologically, I'm 33, but in hockey years, I'm 66.


I don't think you ever stopped Bobby Orr. You contained him.  He was too talented and too great a player.  When we played the Bruins and Bobby had to give up the puck it was a good play.

Canadian hockey player

I grabbed it and squeezed it back into place. It gave a little crunch and popped right in.

Canadian hockey player

It must be the body. It’s chiseled out of marshmallows.

American hockey player

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

Canadian hockey player

One road trip we were stuck on the runway for seven hours. The plane kept driving and driving until we arrived at the rink and I realized we were on a bus.

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

All of a sudden he’s hurt and I’ve got to get the popcorn out of my teeth.

American 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

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

(1909 – 1973) American sports journalist