Hockey Quotes


Hockey Quotes

“As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year’s Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave the American men’s hockey team a chance against the world powers.”

Hockey Quotes

“I have always been interested in finding new ways to play and have looked at handball keepers and ice hockey goal-minders. It helps me.”

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“To me, a hockey player has to be every sport rolled into one: ice skater, baseball player, football player, etc. It’s just incredible to watch!”

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“Whether somebody is really competent – whether he has a good hockey mind, whether he’s a good person to lead a hockey club – is something determined over a long period of time, not one tournament.”

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“I am addicted to hockey now. I’ve seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.”

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“Whether you’re trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, I’ve always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether it’s as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that.”

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“I love hockey. Hockey is my go-to sport. It’s my jam.”

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“You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.”

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“I would be trying to play hockey with my friends, but most of the time, the coach put me on the bench. Because I was too dreamy – I was dreaming all of the time. I was super bad on the ice because I was just thinking about something else.”

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“I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.”

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“A fast body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.”

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

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“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.”

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“Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game… I still love it to this day.”

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“My dad had this thing – everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that’s all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!”

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“Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.”

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“We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don’t even have to go to the hospital.”

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“The playoffs separate the men from the boys, and we found out we have a lot of boys in our dressing room.”

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“The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

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“I often look at the guys who can whistle before a game and shake my head. You’d think they didn’t have a care in the world. Me? I’m just plain miserable before every game.”