Hockey Quotes

• If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Running
  • Play
  • Canada

• 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

• I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Kids
  • Mom
  • Wanted

• Hockey is a tough game.

  

  Bobby Orr
  • Game
  • Hockey

• I think for me, personally, I'm a guy who has watched ESPN ever since I've been growing up. You turn it on, and it's one of the first stories - the Blackhawks and hockey, which you don't really see on that station. That's cool to see.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Growing

• 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

• It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Dad
  • Football
  • Son

• 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

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

  

  Mario Lemieux
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Player

• 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

• 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

• Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry.

  

  Brett Hull
  • Hockey

• My rooting interest these days is first and foremost competitive hockey, and secondly in officials not making a mistake.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Mistake
  • First
  • Hockey

• 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

• When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey.

  

  Christian Cota
  • 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

• 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

• L.A. will never be a hockey town. I'm a huge hockey fan, and people out here do not appreciate hockey as much as they should. I've always been into it. I'm Canadian; that's my sport for sure.

  

  Jean-Luc Bilodeau
  • People
  • Hockey

• I happened to be in a position in Superior where I could play three sports, and when I came to Minnesota, I had the understanding they would allow me to play three sports. Kids now don't have the same amount of time. You have coaches that think baseball is 10 months a year. Hockey is 11 or 12 months a year.

  

  Bud Grant
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Understanding

• 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

• 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

• 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

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