Hockey Quotes - Page 22

An avowed homosexual, that would never be accepted in hockey - never! Because it's a milieu where everyone is often naked.

I coach hockey players—some of them just happen to be girls. When I’m coaching youth hockey, I put the boys and girls together and they can’t tell the difference. They are just playing hockey.

He's skating like he's 36 again.

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

There is only one way a boy can be sure to learn to play hockey - on the pond, on the creek, on a flooded lot. The foundation of hockey isn't really hockey at all. It's shinny, a wild melee of kids batting a puck around, with no rules, no organization - nothing but individual effort to grab and hold the puck.

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

In the playoffs will beats skill.

They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building them.

When Bobby came into the league he was a rushing defenseman, a goal scorer and a point getter. He just opened the game up to more offence and that's the way the game is played now.

I was always interested in sport. My family are big sports' fans. We always had all the locals round watching big sporting events. I wasn't particularly sporty myself. I played a lot of hockey and rode, still do ride, but I just had a general interest in it. When I was given the opportunity to do sport stories I used to grab them.

It is about getting better every game. Work ethic was the first part. We were not ready to give up and the Slovaks did not give up also. That is what the Olympics are all about. We executed where we needed to execute. It was important to play the way we always play.

It only hurt once, from beginning to end.

I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?

Made up of corallitic accretions and painful increments, lit on rare occasions by bolts of revelation, and then stuffed behind the wainscotting to grope in the mouse-turd dust, art is the equivalent of athlete's foot, at best an exquisite itch, at worst an excuse to stop walking. On the emotional side, it is either masturbation with a hockey glove or a night beneath the sliding moon that shames Eros.

The Rope a Dope would not have existed without the Big Dope.

Hockey's my favorite sport.

First of all, it's a curse. Voodoo. As soon as a guy gets put on the cover of The Hockey News, it's like Sports Illustrated. He goes right into the tank.

It really helps to take a breath and think about what you really want to do out there.

A complacent player is a lazy player, and a lazy player is a loser.

I'm on the third line. I'm a crasher. I know my role. I'm just trying to help. I'm not stupid enough to think I'm great out there.

You want it? Work for it.

Usually, I'm on the bus by now, having a beer and waiting for everyone else. This is cutting into my beer time.

These are tough games to play. We shared the puck and we wanted everyone to get a chance to score. Tough games to play in. We want close games. That is why we train so hard. We want to show our fans some even games.

We talk about mental toughness all the time. That's the biggest thing good teams have, that they can overcome adversity.