Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 8)

Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor.

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

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

Lunch is on me.

(1969 – ) Canadian ice hockey player & executive

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

Boston Bruins general manager

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

I don't think you ever stopped Bobby Orr. You contained him.  He was too talented and too great a player.  When we played the Bruins and Bobby had to give up the puck it was a good play.

Canadian hockey player

I think he knows all my tricks. Or the fact I don't have any tricks.

(1969 – ) Canadian ice hockey player & executive

One road trip we were stuck on the runway for seven hours. The plane kept driving and driving until we arrived at the rink and I realized we were on a bus.

Canadian hockey player

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

Canadian hockey player

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

Canadian hockey player

Tell him he’s Wayne Gretzky.

Canadian hockey player

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

I'd drink more.

professional hockey player

If I’m half the coach on the bench that I was in the stands, we’ll have no problems.

Canadian hockey player

Part of the learning curve in Edmonton is learning to hate Calgary.

professional hockey player

I didn’t drop my gloves. They were yanked off me.

professional hockey player

If hockey fights were fake, I'd be in more of them.

professional hockey player

The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.

Boston Bruins general manager

Have another donut you fat pig!

Canadian hockey player & general manager

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

Canadian ice hockey goaltender

By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of the NHL playoff series

(1966 – ) American journalist & novelist