Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 5)

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


(1897 – 1976) American novelist, short story & sports writer

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept. 

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

I told her they must be all sold out.

Canadian hockey player

We are the sort of people who make health insurance popular.

Canadian hockey goaltender

That’s so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my @#%#%@ clothes.

professional hockey player

Three years ago, I couldn't spell author. Now I am one.

Canadian hockey player, coach & commentator

The only way we could have, was to have shot him before the game started.

Canadian hockey player & coach

I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk. It must be working, because we haven't lost a game yet.

hockey coach

Owww… it caught ‘em right in the pants area.

(1958 – ) Canadian hockey player & announcer

War is hell, but expansion is worse.

hockey coach

Reporter to Brett Hull: If you were a tree, what kind of a tree would you be?

Hull: Shoe

Canadian-born American hockey player

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

Canadian hockey player & sports reporter

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

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

This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.

American singer & songwriter (Aerosmith)

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

There have been more cheap shots in this game than a Mexican cantina during happy hour.

Canadian hockey announcer

Or the day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.

Russian hockey player

Aren’t all coaches interim coaches?

Canadian ice hockey coach

Give blood. Play hockey. 

Always remember one thing: From the time the game starts until it ends, you and I are the only sane men on the ice.

professional ice hockey referee

A goal, an assist and a fight.

American ice hockey player