Hockey Quotes - Page 17

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

I'm a little bit superstitious, and I think that just comes from playing hockey. I won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for me, though, is walking under a ladder. I've always felt like that's tempting fate. That's just throwing it right in their face. Check me out. I just walked under a ladder. What are you going to do about it?

Bobby Orr had lots of moves and speed. You had to be careful or he would make you look like a fool. Jacques was impresed how quickly he caught up to Yvan Cournoyer one night when the Habs were playing the Bruins. I didn't think the kid had that kind of speed.

The whole world knows that American TV companies have monopolized Olympic broadcasts and in order to please the fans in their country they do everything they can to keep American viewers interested in what is going on at the hockey rink in Sochi. According to their logic, Americans should always win, no matter what. It was absolutely obvious that [Fyodor] Tyutin's goal yesterday should have been allowed. This was clear to the whole world except the American referee, American TV and those officials with American passports who rule international hockey, grossly neglecting all Olympic principles.

Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

I don't think the summer is short. I would rather play hockey than work out in the gym. It would be tougher if summer was longer. You have your two or three weeks to take off. You have plenty of time to go back and see family and friends. I don't want summer to be any longer.

Our system of forechecking is to shoot the puck and leave it there.

Aw, don't worry about that Doc. If it happens I could always come back as a forward.

The kid looks good in his first game.

You can have all the talent in the world, but if the pumper's not there, it doesn't matter.

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

Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon.

They were checking us so closely, I could tell what brand of deodorant they were using.

When you take off that sweater, your jersey, after today's game, you will be the last player in the NHL to ever wear 99. You have always been and you will always be 'The Great One,' and there will never be another.

The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.

He should be worried about playing the game, not innovating it. He thinks he's Brett Hull or something. You should remind him that he didn't go to college. He's a junior (hockey) guy. So he's not that bright.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.

[In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.

Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

A corner of his mouth quirked up. “I play pool. Shoot hoops sometimes too. Any other sport you’re curious about?” “Hockey? Polo?” “Simultaneously. Trick is to keep the horses on their skates.

I've always felt we weren't physical enough on the back line. Now there's a no - parking sign in front of our net.

This was football played at the speed of ice hockey and the ball was in play for only 53 minutes of the 90. The Premiership at its highest level is enthralling, edge-of-the-seat stuff, but sometimes it is too fast and frenetic for its own good.

Or as hockey player Sergei Fedorov knows it, 'The day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.'