Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 9)

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

Canadian hockey player

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

Was Wayne Gretzky sick?

Canadian hockey player

A goal, an assist and a fight.

American ice hockey player

There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.

Slovak-born Canadian hockey player

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

American hockey coach

Anytime you hold Dallas to a one touchdown, it's not all bad.

Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager

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

professional hockey player

If you’ve only got one day to live, come see the Toronto Maple Leafs… it’ll seem like forever.

hockey announcer

Better teams win more often than the teams that are not so good.

professional hockey coach

I was three-quarters down the list of guys I would be facing in my first game when I realized I was looking at our own roster.

Canadian hockey player

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

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

Canadian ice hockey player & coach

Why doesn’t the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

He just got me in the right spot. In the small of the back. A good, clean, dirty hit… not that I didn't deserve it.

American hockey player

He’s easy to do. Sit on the bench. Play about 10 minutes a game.

Czech hockey player

I had to pinch myself seeing the grassy knoll and the book suppository building.

Canadian hockey player

How would you like it in your job if every time you made a small mistake, a red light went on over your desk and 15,000 people stood up and yelled at you?

professional hockey goalie

He's the second-best goalie on the ice.

Canadian hockey coach

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

Canadian sports writer & analyst

I only have one goal in each stick.

Czech ice hockey player