Hockey Quotes - Page 8

When I left here I left everything here. It's time to move on

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.

If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

Most people have friends, but no money. I have the opposite. I don't have a chance to talk to my real friends, the ones I've had since I was 5 years old. Sometimes I wish I could bring Czechoslovakia to America. Then I would be the happiest guy in the world.

I never got really good at hockey.

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool.

Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.

I always look forward to playing in Toronto because it's such a historic city when it comes to hockey.

Effort is a measure of a Man.

I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It's what I love the most.

I slept like a baby. Every two hours, I woke up and cried.

I grew up on a farm and I always learned when you work you go forward, you don't stop and say, well, I'll take a break. You always go forward and get the job done.

Most kids start playing hockey at the age of five, I was an earlier bloomer. My parents laced up my first pair of skates and put me on the ice at the young age of 2 ½, basically right after I mastered walking.

When it comes to hockey, it's been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level.

Everything went well, we had a good first period. We wanted to win, and we did. We have a big game in two days, and it will be fun. We worked hard, and it is our ultimate goal. We are ready. There is always a big rivalry between Canada and the United States; it's always fun, and we are really motivated.

I love to play for Pittsburgh. If they can't afford me, then I'd love to play in L.A. or New York.

How would you like a job where, if you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

I think as women on the national team, you start your hockey career and you also are starting to plan what you're going to do when it's over, because we don't make the millions of dollars and you have to have a life after.

I know my players don't like my practices, but that's OK because I don't like their games.

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.

In the old days, that was my ad-lib for hecklers in the joints I worked. It stuck with me. I hardly say it now, say, to fans, even though people do send me hockey pucks.

Over the years, Steve has come to understand I need the clicker. He says it's my security blanket.

My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars.