Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 4)

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

Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager

I'd like to play Columbus. [of the International League]

American hockey player

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

He brings something special. I don’t know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn’t understand his answer.

(1961 – ) Canadian hockey player & owner

Hockey is figure skating in a war zone

I’m hoping for a bench clearing brawl during the warm up so I can go out and grab his stick.

Canadian hockey goaltender

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

I quit coaching because of illness and fatigue; the fans were sick and tired of me.

Canadian hockey player

I will personally challenge anyone who wants to get rid of fighting to a fight.

American-Canadian hockey executive

I'd spend six months behind bars to have him on my team.

Canadian hockey player & broadcaster

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

He's the second-best goalie on the ice.

Canadian hockey coach

I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk. It must be working, because we haven't lost a game yet.

hockey coach

Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental. 

Canadian hockey player & sports reporter

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

American hockey player

You can throw anything in our house, but we’ll just let it roll off our backs

I had to pinch myself seeing the grassy knoll and the book suppository building.

Canadian hockey player

I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.

Canadian-born American hockey player

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

American hockey player

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

Canadian ice hockey goaltender

He's skating like he's 36 again.

Canadian hockey player