Hockey Quotes - Page 23

Basically, I don't like anybody.

Hockey is a tough game. With all the talk and everything that's going on right now, it frightens me a little bit that we are giving our players an excuse not to hit. I just hope that we don't take that out of our game at the pro level.

I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work.

We're going to be the best in the league at something. We're deep in anthem singers.

Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.

Their toys are alive and can sometimes come to their aid, or get lost and Olie has to find them. They go to other planets. They go to the ice cream planet.

But in my mind, I don't think there's any question Sidney Crosby is the best all-around player in the game. His hockey sense is so strong and so solid, combined with his God-gifted talent of being able to see the ice, see the entire picture in front of him. And, most importantly, I don't care how good you are, if you don't have a work ethic, it doesn't matter. There's no question that each and every game, he's one of the hardest-working guys on the ice. In my mind, he's the best player in the game today.

We feel fortunate [with Canada hockey team]. We have got a lot of guys who love to play, but they also love to win even more. We are pretty happy. Although we are young, we like our group of players.

And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.

Eight days ago, we were the toast of the town. Eight days later we're Thanksgiving turkeys.

If We Lose...We're All Screwed.

In a hockey fight, barring the occasional brawl, theres actually some etiquette that goes into it. Honor, too, absolutely. Most of those guys that do it, thats their job, and they follow a certain code of conduct in doing it.

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

I believe this all has to do with how I decide to perceive the experience. Pain is part of life and makes you who you are meant to be. I just let it flow through me, at whatever rate it decides to do so. Then I go to the hockey rink and hit a few slap shots.

My brother Dash hit me on the head with five textbooks in a gym bag.

On rookie Alex Selivanov, Yes the guy can score you 40 goals. Yes I love it. What I don't want is him causing 60.

The great thing about hockey players is that they are able to separate the on-ice from the off-ice and not let the latter distract them.

You know the old joke, I went to the fights and a hockey game broke out.

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.

Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.

Leon, no offense, but you don't exactly look like a hockey player." "I told 'em I was a goalie. That's where they put the guy who can't skate, right? Just like in baseball when they put the worst player at catcher.

The Tragically Hip, more so than any other band I've worked with, approach their work like a team. This might sound way too pat, but they're like a great hockey team: all five of them have their roles. They go at their shows like an athletic event; they're in it to win it, and they'll lay it out there on the proverbial ice in order to win and get the crowd on their side. You can't do that when you just throw a band together. There's a sixth sense there that makes it easy.

If I weren't acting, I think I'd want to be a professional hockey player.

I graduated early from high school, but up until I graduated, I was playing high school hockey. I really enjoy hockey. That's definitely what I do on my days off, for sure.

I love to play hockey. I'm a huge hockey fan and I love to play as well.