Subject: Sports » Hockey (Page 9)

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

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

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

A goal, an assist and a fight.

American ice hockey player

Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded – accordion-style – back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.

(1966 – ) American journalist & novelist

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

Canadian hockey player & sports reporter

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

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

professional 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

Hockey is the original extreme sport.

American hockey player

I have nothing to say, and I’ll only say it once.

Hockey coach

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

Canadian hockey goaltender

I'd drink more.

professional hockey player

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

Canadian hockey player, coach & commentator

I only have one goal in each stick.

Czech ice hockey player

It's going to be nice to be embarrassed in practice instead of games.

Canadian hockey player

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

Canadian hockey player

Hmm, 600 games? What does it mean? It means I’m that much closer to getting fired.

Canadian hockey player & coach

If officials called every penalty they saw, there would be no players on the ice and no one in the rink.

professional hockey referee

I'm glad it's him and not some other puke.

Canadian hockey player

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

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

Russian hockey player