Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 6)

Playing goal is like being shot at.

professional hockey goalie

Our first priority was staying alive. Our second was stopping the puck.

Canadian hockey player

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

Canadian hockey player

Street hockey is great for kids. It’s energetic, competitive, and skillful… and best of all it keeps them off the street.

Canadian 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

We are the sort of people who make health insurance popular.

Canadian hockey goaltender

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

To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

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

There have been more cheap shots in this game than a Mexican cantina during happy hour.

Canadian hockey announcer

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

That puck would have gone in the net if not for the goalie.

(1958 – ) Canadian hockey player & announcer

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

American 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

I told her they must be all sold out.

Canadian hockey player

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts; our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

(1919 – 2000) Canadian prime minister & politician

They can say what they want, but playoff hockey is a whole other ballgame.

Man that guy is ripped! I mean, I've got the washboard stomach, too. It's just that mine has about two months of laundry on top of it.

Canadian hockey player

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

(1909 – 1973) American sports journalist

After I took the Olympic job, my wife said to me, ‘You love hockey more than you love me.’ I told her, ‘Yes, dear, but I love you more than hunting and fishing.’

American hockey player & coach

Every time I see you naked I feel bad for your wife.

Czech hockey player

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

Russian hockey player