Hockey Quotes - Page 21

I'd say there's 100 percent of the guys who think they're in the 25 percent.

Only Dunlop has seen more rubber than I have

And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.

Probably not. Their depth and our play right now...it doesn't look too good.

It's going to be intense. This is what we played the whole tournament for, we had to play an extra game but I think that's a good thing, we got some line combinations working together fairly well now.

You get a pretty good read by watching the play, and knowing what you would have done - having done most of the things that these guys are accused of doing. I put myself in their shoes: Would I have been wanting to send a message? Is it a hockey play that went a little sideways?

So here I am running at guys who aren't taller than 5-foot-8, and I'm the one who tears up his knee.

That was awesome. I wasn't expecting it and when I got the call I got nervous for a second. But I was just really excited.

We were really sick of silver.

I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.

I wish that we could tumble them in the dryer for 30 minutes and get them to shrink, but that won't happen.

I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.

Fifty percent of the game is mental and the other 50 percent is being mental. I've got that part down, no problem.

There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed.

We brought him [Raffi Torres] in because he was an emotional, physical player. He's had nothing but a great attitude and a great work ethic with us all year long. He comes to play, prepares himself real well. We need him to play the way he does. You know, he's a little bit sometimes outside the box, but you've got to let him be who he is.

Hullie's a lot like a garbage can. You step on the pedal with your foot and the top opens up.

He's one of those guys whose English gets worse every year. But as long as it doesn't affect his play, we're all right.

I like other sports, too, including skiing and swimming, and I am learning to play ice hockey now. But judo is definitely part of my life, a very big part, and I am glad that judo was the first sport I took up and that I have practiced it regularly and seriously. I am also grateful to Japan for this.

I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better.

I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.

I try to get to the gym at least a few times a week, hopefully more. I also play hockey in a pickup league. I grew up playing, so it's nice to get on the ice whenever I can. With all that said, everyone should have cheat days or days off. You need to balance the unhealthy with the healthy.

Oh brother we are not worthy!

I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court. . . But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism.

I went to elementary school in Goodeve, Saskatchewan, a small Ukrainian town. I played a lot of hockey, a lot of ball. Because of that I fit in - everyone wanted me on their team. The guys knew I was a hunter, and they were farmers. They just accepted that. I have lifelong friends from Goodeve.

I can't control what people say or anything like that. I have to focus on what I can control and that's what I'm going to do.