Hockey Quotes
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People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.
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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.
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I'm gonna catch you with your head down tonight. I'm gonna take it off.
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We don't want to get into a spot with Steve where we're going to cost him an opportunity someplace. But he is still determined that he is going to play on this hockey club. We're open to that too. It has a lot to do with the respect we have for him as a player and an individual.
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I've got a hockey record, I took off my skate and tried to stab a guy, I'm the only person who ever tried that.
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I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better.
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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.
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The excitement you can get in classical concert is as big, in a different sense, as you can get when you go to the ice hockey or baseball game.
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Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids.
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Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.
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I would be trying to play hockey with my friends, but most of the time, the coach put me on the bench. Because I was too dreamy - I was dreaming all of the time. I was super bad on the ice because I was just thinking about something else.
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I am a pretty tough guy. I'm an old hockey player.
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I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.
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I've slept through a mild earthquake in Italy. And also a very tight hockey game where people were screaming their heads off.
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It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.
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I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work.
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As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year's Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave the American men's hockey team a chance against the world powers.
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When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.
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I think whenever anyone asked me why I wanted to be a hockey player, that's where it all started, watching the Winnipeg Jets play as a young kid.
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I still have my teeth. I don't want to lose them at age 61 in some hockey game.
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And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.
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I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.
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My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.
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When you think of Canada, you think of hockey and you think of Wayne Gretzky.
