Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 4)

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

Canadian ice hockey goaltender

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

Canadian hockey player & broadcaster

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

Canadian hockey player

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

Canadian sports writer & analyst

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

The kid looks good in his first game.

(1928 – ) Canadian professional ice 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

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

Give blood. Play hockey. 

Here’s Wellwood, seven-and-oh in the faceoffs, plus-two, two assists, played 20 minutes, drew eight minutes on the power play, lost a tooth and a pint of blood. What a guy.

Canadian hockey player, coach & commentator

I just tape four Tylenols to it.

Russian hockey player

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

He's as old as some trees.

Canadian hockey player & coach

I guess it's why you never say never. The only thing you can never do is ski through a revolving door.

hockey coach

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

(1969 – ) Canadian ice hockey player & executive

I have nothing to say, and I’ll only say it once.

Hockey coach

Basketball players get the girls, hockey players take them home.

Here’s Hodge on the breakaway! He’s all by himself. He shoots. And Hodge missed the goal! He’ll be thinking about that one for a while! Just look at the expression on Hodge’s stick!

I'd drink more.

professional hockey player

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

professional hockey player

How would you like it in your job if every time you made a small mistake, a red light went on over your desk and 15,000 people stood up and yelled at you?

professional hockey goalie