Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 2)

If everything were going good for him, he'd be having success.

American hockey coach

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!

I usually call the new guy and let him know where I like to sit on the bus, tell him ways he can stay out of my way, make sure he knows not to touch any of my stuff.

(1969 – ) Canadian ice hockey player & executive

All the records were gone. So I figured here's one record I can get.

Canadian hockey player

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

If I play badly I’ll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I’ll break a guy’s leg to win, I don’t care. Afterward I say, ‘Yeah, all right I played badly, but I won the fight so who gives a damn.'

Canadian hockey player

The goal is too small and the goalies are too big.

Canadian hockey coach

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

Have another donut you fat pig!

Canadian hockey player & general manager

If you take your eye off Gretzky, he'll bank it off your skate, your back, your helmet or your wife. I could hang a nickel in the net and he'd hit it every time.

Canadian hockey player

I'd trade Larry Murphy for a shaved monkey who could skate and a bucket of pucks.

He brings something special. I don’t know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn’t understand his answer.

(1961 – ) Canadian hockey player & owner

Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.

(1958 – ) Canadian hockey player & announcer

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

(1924 – 1987) American stand-up ‘deadpan’ comedian and actor

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

Canadian hockey player

Hockey is a game played by six good players and a home team.

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

They do a lot of talking, but I'm not sure they actually understand each other.

Canadian hockey player

Our system of forechecking is to shoot the puck and leave it there.

Canadian hockey coach, general manager & commentator

The only difference between the [Phoenix] Coyotes and Days of Our Lives is that nobody has been shot on our team yet.

professional hockey player

I didn’t hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears.

Canadian ice hockey goaltender