I don't like hockey. I'm just good at it.
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
When he gets mad, it's like he's in another world. He'll look at you with those big eyes and they'll be going around in circles.
People didn't know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.
I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.
If somebody asked me to come up with a mental image of my hockey career, there is absolutely no doubt I would be wearing the uniform of the Vancouver Canucks in it.
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.
I had all my own teeth and I wanted to keep it that way.
I have 3,000 penalty minutes. I don't need people dictating to me how to do my job.
If they can play eight more years, then I can too. I'm in better shape than they are.
A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.
That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my (expletive) clothes.
I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.
I'll keep battling for that No. 1 spot.
It's too easy when you're not winning to look for excuses and point at others for reasons. You ca say 'Oh well, it's this guys fault or they don't do this well', or you can say 'I've got to play better and contribute more'. You've got to find another gear and come up with big games.
Sources also confirm that there is no one left in Canada who can remember when hockey was a simple game, played for fun.
I'm hoping for a bench clearing brawl during the warm up so I can go out and grab his stick.
His four year contract renewal: As always, I remain hopeful that Don Cherry won't be offered the same length contract.
It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.
Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.
I'd be lying to you if I said guys weren't afraid of him. I'm afraid of him, afraid of him running in to me.
For us [hockey] is an opportunity, myself and my brothers have an opportunity to do something special.
If the government is to try and ban private consumption of alcohol and tobacco, it must surely ban such activities as hang-gliding, skiing, rock-climbing and so on. Where should it stop? Rugby? American Football? Ice Hockey? Insofar as the government has information not generally available about the merits or demerits of the items we ingest or the activities we engage in, let it give us the information. But let it leave us free to choose what chances we want to take with our own lives.
Screw the Rangers, and screw the Devils; I work for the Islanders now, and I could care less about them!
