Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 5)

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

(1969 – ) Canadian ice hockey player & executive

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 was three-quarters down the list of guys I would be facing in my first game when I realized I was looking at our own roster.

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

When he put out his arms to celebrate, [after scoring his second goal] the rest of us skated immediately to the bench and left him there all alone.

Canadian hockey player

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept. 

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

As a coach, you must remember that when you're on your way in, you're on your way out.

Canadian hockey coach & general manager

The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.

Boston Bruins general manager

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

Russian hockey player

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

Canadian sports writer & analyst

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

Canadian hockey player

I’m not a cancer, I’m a Gemini.

American ice hockey player

Hockey is the original extreme sport.

American hockey player

The only difference between the [Phoenix] Coyotes and Days of Our Lives is that nobody has been shot on our team yet.

professional hockey player

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


 A good fighting club will beat a club that has superstars on it every time.

Canadian hockey coach & general manager

I'd take five [former player] Milt Schmidts, put my grandmother in the nets and we'd beat any team.

Former NHL referee

I'd trade Larry Murphy for a shaved monkey who could skate and a bucket of pucks.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

(1961 – ) Canadian hockey player & owner

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

My teeth weren't that good to begin with, so hopefully I can get some better ones.

Canadian hockey player