Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 6)

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

I’m really no different than anybody else; except that sometimes I get my name in the paper.

Canadian professional hockey player

I know my players don't like my practices, but that's OK, because I don't like their games.

Canadian hockey coach, general manager & commentator

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

She doesn't pay me anything. I pay her. Besides, what position can she play?

Toronto Maple Leafs owner

Sean Avery is liked about as much as a rattlesnake at a picnic.

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

Canadian hockey coach

You know that creepy-looking guy you stare at two seats behind you, thinking, who would come to a movie by himself? That's me.

(1969 – ) Canadian ice hockey player & executive

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

Canadian hockey player

War is hell, but expansion is worse.

hockey coach

A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can’t hit one another. 

(1909 – 1973) American sports journalist

They say you're not a coach in the league till you've been fired. I must be getting pretty good.

Canadian hockey player & coach

The place was cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.

professional baseball player

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

Canadian hockey player

Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon.

American sports announcer

I didn’t drop my gloves. They were yanked off me.

professional hockey player

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

Czech hockey player

Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor.

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

Early in the year, after a bad game, I said to my kids in the car, this is my last year and the next day I was getting phone calls from the school about whether I was retiring.  And that was in October.

(1961 – ) Canadian hockey player & owner

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

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