Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 6)

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
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Hockey is figure skating in a war zone

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Why is a puck called a puck? Because ‘dirty little bastard’ was taken.

Canadian hockey player
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If I knew the answer to that I'd bet $10,000 on the game and retire from coaching.

Montreal Canadiens coach
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He asked me if he could marry Carrie before he asked her.  I said: You want to what?’ I thought he was just going to ask for more ice time.

Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager
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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
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I knew I was in trouble when I heard snap, crackle, and pop, and I wasn't having a bowl of cereal.

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

(1928 – ) Canadian professional ice hockey player
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I think they bring me luck… I guess I'll have to like seafood now.

Canadian ice hockey goaltender
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He shortened my career having to chase him around the ice all the time.

Canadian ice hockey player & coach
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The first thing I would do when I saw Bobby [Orr] coming down at me was to say a little prayer if I had time.  I’m sure I wasn’t the only goalie who did that.

Canadian professional hockey player
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Get used to this phrase: “How could both referees have missed that?”

Canadian sports writer & analyst
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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
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Some guys play hockey… Gretzky plays 40 mph chess.

American sportswriter
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I wanted to go through the TV and strangle Terry Crisp. I wanted to punch Chris Gratton in the face. And when Petr Klima took a penalty, I wanted to send him back to Czechoslovakia.

Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager
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Hmm, 600 games? What does it mean? It means I’m that much closer to getting fired.

Canadian hockey player & coach
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He’s easy to do. Sit on the bench. Play about 10 minutes a game.

Czech hockey player
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We're looking forward to building the type of team the Rangers are able to buy.

Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager
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I’m not a cancer, I’m a Gemini.

American ice hockey player
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Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.

Canadian hockey goalie & coach
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Optimistically, you hope someday you’ll be in a magazine. Of course, your mom hopes it’s Sports Illustrated or something like that.

American hockey player & coach
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