Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 10)

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

You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.

(1928 – ) Canadian professional ice hockey player

There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.

Slovak-born Canadian hockey player

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

(1961 – ) Canadian hockey player & owner

They say something to me sometimes. But I don't understand all the words yet. So I smile at them and then I go score goal.

Russian hockey player

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

Sean Avery’s got more tongue than a lumberjack’s boot.

Four out of five dentists surveyed recommended playing hockey.

Actually we’re trying to get it to flood both locker rooms, just to be fair.

Nassau Coliseum general manager

The three important elements of hockey are: forecheck, backcheck and paycheck.

Canadian hockey player

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; you must first set yourself on fire.

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

We can’t win at home. We can’t win on the road. I don’t know where else we can play.

Canadian hockey coach, general manager & commentator

I was hoping I could still be an underwear model after my career is over.

Canadian hockey player

He just got me in the right spot. In the small of the back. A good, clean, dirty hit… not that I didn't deserve it.

American hockey player

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

How would you know, Sean? When I was playing you were in your 3rd year of 8th grade?

Canadian hockey player & commentator

Goaltenders are three sandwiches shy of a picnic. From the moment primitive man lurched erect, he survived on the principle that when something hard and potentially lethal comes toward you at great velocity, get the hell out of it's path.

Canadian hockey player

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

I've always felt we weren't physical enough on the back line. Now there's a no-parking sign in front of our net.

hockey general manager

If you keep your opposition on their ass, they don’t score goals.

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

Daneyko got mad when Kaminski said he was going to knock his teeth out. Dano only has two teeth left, so you can't say that to Dano.

Canadian hockey player & coach