Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 6)

Optimistically, you hope someday you’ll be in a magazine. Of course, your mom hopes it’s Sports Illustrated or something like that.

American hockey player & coach

I just tape four Tylenols to it.

Russian hockey player

Sean Avery’s got more tongue than a lumberjack’s boot.

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

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

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

Canadian hockey player & sports reporter

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

professional hockey player

Watching a shootout is like admitting you watch  Survivor or search the internet for porn.

(1969 – ) Canadian ice hockey player & executive

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

Canadian hockey player

I'm okay. Russian machine never breaks.

Russian hockey player

Lunch is on me.

(1969 – ) Canadian ice hockey player & executive

Hockey is a game played by six good players and a home team.

If our goalies were in a divorce case, they could sue for lack of support and be millionaires tomorrow.

Canadian hockey player & broadcaster

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

American hockey player

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

We're right next to Mile High Stadium. I'm no rocket scientist, but… uh… [smile]

Canadian hockey player

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

Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager

He scored hockey by the number of fights. If you lost seven to one, but won five fights, he figured you won the game.

Canadian businessman, sportsman & owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs

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

We've made a final offer. We hope [player] Ziggy Palffy will come to his senses. We have NO hope his agent will.

American player, coach & general manager

Give blood. Play hockey.