Hockey Quotes

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

It's odd, that's why I don't like telling people I played field hockey. It's real big in Australia for guys. But I say I played in America, and everybody goes, 'Oh, you girl!'

People on the streets are ready for hockey.

I would be surprised if there weren't some owners who didn't want to get a deal done right now and get back to playing hockey.

That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would play slow motion tackle football. We would play hockey, but we wouldn't skate. We just made things up. I loved doing that.

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

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

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

It was a fun ride. I've enjoyed my time on the ice and I've enjoyed more and more people getting interested in the game of hockey.

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed.

When you think of Canada, you think of hockey and you think of Wayne Gretzky.

I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was.

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

I find that I've tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the same time, I've also made it a point to increase or grow in some other area of my life. If I were just playing hockey, I would probably be done with the sport.

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

The greatest hockey player who ever lived: Bobby Orr, and I love him.

Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be.

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.

I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.

My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.