Hockey Quotes
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There were a number of reasons why I wanted to get back to playing in a good hockey environment and I think they have that here in Vancouver.
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It seems like we're doing just enough to lose by a little.
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In hockey I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.
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My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!
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Outdoor hockey is what it is all about.
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I used to coach a lot of hockey. I'd love to be a hockey coach, a bit more of a dramatic role and not comedic. I would go back to my hockey roots, that would be fun.
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Women are playing hockey because they love it, not because they’re trying to be a woman in a man’s game.
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He stepped in there and did a great job, coming in off the bench isn't easy. We started to play our style of hockey. From there, we started to roll and knew we could compete.
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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.
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I know you define leads by goals having the lead, but we never really had the lead.
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Matt Cooke may be the worst fighter in the history of the National Hockey League.
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Before I broke my back, I was really looking forward to playing hockey at the University of Michigan. That was my biggest goal.
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You want it? Work for it.
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Right now we are playing good hockey and making a push for the playoffs. I thought the effort was great and we are skating very well.
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I love Boston. I come here all the time and play pick-up ice hockey with friends in Concord and Bedford.
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It's the nuts and bolts time of the year and we don't have enough nuts and bolts.
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It's odd, that's why I don't like telling people I played field hockey. It's real big in Australia for guys. But I say I played in America, and everybody goes, 'Oh, you girl!'
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Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.
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I don't care what people say about me and what they think about me. I care about my team and I care about myself. Lots of people watch hockey, and I think everybody has different thinking.
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It is so important to me to have my time away from hockey. Obviously, hockey is my passion; I love it. But definitely for me, time away from the rink and time when my mind isn't thinking about hockey is important.
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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.
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Baseball doesn't seem very important on a day like this...When you live in the United States and you think it's the greatest country in the world, you feel somewhat protected and immune. You read about [terrorism] happening in other parts of the world. A day like this makes you rethink. A lot of us really have a false sense of what the world is really like.
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I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself.
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Today is a very sad day across the hockey world and here in Atlanta. Boom Boom was an incredible man who meant a great deal to me, and I'm fortunate to have called him a friend and a mentor.
