Hockey Quotes

• It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.

  

  Eric Heiden
  • Famous
  • Hockey

• I admire Miken's exceptional engineering capabilities and was drawn to their passion for hockey and drive to be the best in all they do.

  

  Brett Hull
  • Passion
  • Engineering
  • Hockey

• I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn't play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.

  

  John Katzman
  • Up
  • Game
  • Team

• There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hockey

• I would be surprised if there weren't some owners who didn't want to get a deal done right now and get back to playing hockey.

  

  Luke Richardson
  • Done
  • Hockey

• Back in the NBA's pre-mask era, ballers with busted noses or orbital bones had two unappealing options: Sit out and heal, or strap on a Michael Myers-looking opaque face shield closely related to that worn by hockey goalies.

  

  Brendan I. Koerner
  • Hockey

• Hockey is a tough game.

  

  Bobby Orr
  • Game
  • Hockey

• Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Chicago
  • Hockey

• Just a warning: If you're a bunch of sexy teenagers at a lake where other sexy teenagers were killed 30 years ago, leave! The guy in the forest with a hockey mask... maybe doesn't play hockey.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Guy
  • Sexy
  • Forest

• My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves.

  

  James McNerney
  • World
  • Business
  • Bad

• We did our best the last couple of weeks, we really put on a push. But the teams ahead of us were also playing playoff hockey.

  

  Luke Richardson
  • Best
  • Couple
  • Playing

• I always wanted to be a professional athlete, it just took me a while to realise it would be in racing. I played field hockey competitively for Ontario since I was 13, 14. Then I tried for the national side and made it. But it was so competitive. The girls were just so big and strong. I was getting crushed.

  

  Chantal Sutherland
  • Strong
  • Professional
  • Athlete

• We will play football. We will box and play lacrosse and ice hockey and snowboard and surf and drive fast cars, climb trees, and do dozens of things that we know are potentially concussive. We will do this because we are human and animals, and we like speed and contact and aggressive maneuvering and all such things.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Football
  • Hockey

• I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Time
  • Dance
  • Yoga

• A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Family
  • Myself
  • Attitude

• The biggest challenge was the cost to play the sport, and this is a challenge that my parents faced. They relied on the community and friends and family for support, and I learned to play hockey using second hand equipment.

  

  P. K. Subban
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Parents

• For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

  

  Mario Lemieux
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Player

• Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be.

  

  Mario Lemieux
  • Game
  • Hockey

• But inside of me I knew that the Olympics were still there. I was still young enough. I knew that once I transitioned out of hockey, it would be really hard to go back.

  

  Angela Ruggiero
  • Hockey

• Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey - let's face it, true Canadian - fan. I've always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I'm not crazy about hockey - but love it!

  

  Dustin Milligan
  • True
  • Crazy
  • Sports

• If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.

  

  Brett Hull
  • Hockey

• My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.

  

  Bobby Hull
  • Job
  • Game
  • Professional

• I find that I've tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the same time, I've also made it a point to increase or grow in some other area of my life. If I were just playing hockey, I would probably be done with the sport.

  

  Angela Ruggiero
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• Where in normal neighborhoods, they would play stick ball and hockey and baseball, we used to slap box and bring boxing gloves down the street and box each other.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • Baseball
  • Boxing
  • Hockey

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