Hockey Quotes


Hockey Quotes

“Even when you’re being safe, eight hours of choreography makes you look like you’ve been through a war. It’s hard. It’s like playing hockey for eight hours.”

Hockey Quotes

“Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.”

Hockey Quotes

“Hockey should have some appeal. It’s a good game in that is full of action, very quick, and it can be high-scoring.”

Hockey Quotes

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

Hockey Quotes

“Hockey’s filled with great people, and it’s a great sport, and I encourage a lot of people to play it because of the relationships that you make in hockey.”

Hockey Quotes

“There are no environments where you’re only going to win, because life just isn’t like that.”

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.”

Hockey Quotes

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

Hockey Quotes

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

Hockey Quotes

“The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.”

Hockey Quotes

“Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they’re too tough to cry.”

Hockey Quotes

“By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of the NHL playoff series.”

Hockey Quotes

“My teeth weren’t that good to begin with, so hopefully I can get some better ones.”

Hockey Quotes

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

Hockey Quotes

“I’m not superstitious about anything in my life – except for playoff hockey. I get really kind of sketchy and weird about it. I don’t like talking about it. I don’t like making predictions.”

Hockey Quotes

“It is so important to me to have my time away from hockey. Obviously, hockey is my passion; I love it. But definitely for me, time away from the rink and time when my mind isn’t thinking about hockey is important.”

Hockey Quotes

“I am extremely grateful to have had the opportunity to play hockey, especially when there weren’t equal opportunities as there are now. But at times, it was challenging.”

Hockey Quotes

“I think the big thing is you really have one chance to do this… to play hockey for a living, you have one chance at your career, and you have to take full advantage of it.”

Hockey Quotes

“If you’re a sports fan, it is really cool when you see the best-on-best for hockey at the Olympics.”

Hockey Quotes

“My most visceral childhood memory is getting home from hockey. Much of our family time revolved around hockey, and it rains a lot in Perth, and we’d get home tired and wet in our tracksuits, and the smell I’d hold in my nose is of mother’s vegetable soup.”