Hockey Quotes

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.

And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.

The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

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.

L.A. will never be a hockey town. I'm a huge hockey fan, and people out here do not appreciate hockey as much as they should. I've always been into it. I'm Canadian; that's my sport for sure.

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.

I went on and was still able to play some good hockey.

It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.

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

I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.

A lot of my friends growing up were hunters, but I spent all my time on the ice hurting actual humans playing hockey. I never had the chance to run through the woods and shoot at a moose or deer. I was shooting pucks at goaltender's heads.

It's been a good hockey life for me anyway.

It's not only hockey, it's every sport. You know, it's a big event.

It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.

I started ice-skating when I was about 12 or 13 and I was selected in the Australian team for ice hockey. I met my wife at St Moritz Ice Skating about 1955.

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.

I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.

My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry.

If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.

I always played hockey, I was always a hockey fan, but I was never bitten by the hockey bug... I never looked into playing it professionally.

I'm so busy right now, it's the beginning of the hockey season for my kids.

I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!

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.

Every day is a great day for hockey.

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

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

When it comes to hockey, it's been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

People on the streets are ready for hockey.

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

I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.

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

For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.

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'm not a hockey fan. I'm not a golf fan.

There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.

I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey.

Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.

The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.

Hockey is a tough game.

We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.

I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.

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.

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

I feel honored and privileged to have represented the USA program over the past 16 years. USA Hockey will always be a part of me and I will cherish the experiences and memories with this team.

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.

The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven't been skating as a kid it's impossible to play - and I wasn't a skater.

I'm awful at hockey.

I don't know where the loyalty lies in baseball. You really don't have to protect each other much, unless there's like a bench-clearing brawl. In hockey, it's important that they look out for each other.

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. That's just the way it was.

People who wave digital cameras at shows are the same people who sit in front of you at hockey games and wear those giant foam-rubber fingers that say, We're number one!'

I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.

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

But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.

I've been acting since I was 8 - I used to play hockey and there was a kids' theatre down the street from my house and one day I just walked in and signed up for auditions for 'The Wizard Of Oz.'

As a kid in New Zealand, you play cricket in summer and rugby in winter. I played cricket and hockey. Not rugby. I wasn't brawny enough for it. Or silly enough, perhaps.

I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.

Canada is hockey.

Playing hockey, there were a lot of guys bigger than me, so I knew I was going to get hit and have to deal with it. Gotta hit back.

I played ice hockey obsessively for 14 years of my life.

I was sporty in high school. I played tennis and hockey, and was basketball captain. Then I went to university and stopped doing sport and started eating ice cream.