Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 11)

Here’s Wellwood, seven-and-oh in the faceoffs, plus-two, two assists, played 20 minutes, drew eight minutes on the power play, lost a tooth and a pint of blood. What a guy.

Canadian hockey player, coach & commentator

We hate each other. People assume that we respect each other because we’re black. We don’t.

Canadian hockey player & commentator

The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterwards.

Canadian hockey player & broadcaster

It's going to be nice to be embarrassed in practice instead of games.

Canadian hockey player

Tell him he’s Wayne Gretzky.

Canadian hockey player

Frankly, that’s tantamount to the head of the White Star line saying the company’s next voyage will be considered a success if it fares better than the Titanic.

Canadian hockey player

I'd spend six months behind bars to have him on my team.

Canadian hockey player & broadcaster

Yes, the guy can score you 40 goals… what I don't want is him causing 60.

Canadian hockey player & broadcaster

We raced the other day and it wasn't a photo finish… it was an oil painting.

Canadian hockey player

We appreciate all the fans that are here, but we really respect the five or six who stayed with us all year.

(1962 – ) American ice hockey goaltender

Two people fighting is not violence in hockey. It might be in tennis or bowling, but it's not in hockey.

Canadian hockey goalie & coach

I always tell Bobby he was up in the air for so long that I had time to shower and change before he hit the ice.

Canadian hockey player

You hate to lose your teeth and the game, too.

Canadian hockey player

A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can’t hit one another. 

(1909 – 1973) American sports journalist

The remedy, right now, is two scotches and an aspirin, I think.

Boston Bruins general manager

I’m not a cancer, I’m a Gemini.

American ice hockey player

Here’s Hodge on the breakaway! He’s all by himself. He shoots. And Hodge missed the goal! He’ll be thinking about that one for a while! Just look at the expression on Hodge’s stick!

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

Canadian hockey player & sports reporter

I don’t live in the fast lane – I live on the off ramp.

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