Hockey Quotes
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Whether you're trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, I've always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether it's as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that.
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I'm a little bit superstitious, and I think that just comes from playing hockey. I won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for me, though, is walking under a ladder. I've always felt like that's tempting fate. That's just throwing it right in their face. Check me out. I just walked under a ladder. What are you going to do about it?
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The greatest hockey player who ever lived: Bobby Orr, and I love him.
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I am a pretty tough guy. I'm an old hockey player.
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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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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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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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I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
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I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.
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I don't like hockey. I'm just good at it.
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America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's philosophical objection to the Canadian health system, it is, broadly, fair: Unless you're a cabinet minister or a big time hockey player, you'll enjoy the same equality of crappiness and universal lack of access that everybody else does. But, even before it's up-and-running, Pelosi-Reid-Obamacare is an impenetrable thicket of contradictory boondoggles, shameless payoffs and arbitrary shakedowns.
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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 gonna catch you with your head down tonight. I'm gonna take it off.
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I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.
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I am really excited about going out there and playing with some of the guys from different regions and playing with the best. Just the opportunity to represent the Academy in hockey and our league is just awesome.
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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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I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.
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Even when you're being safe, eight hours of choreography makes you look like you've been through a war. It's hard. It's like playing hockey for eight hours.
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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 am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey
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But there was a hockey game where they didn't even play hockey, they just threw the puck aside and started fighting. I saw that and I thought, 'Oh man, I'm a thug?' So I'm really disappointed in being called a thug.
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My son, he is the reason I got involved. It's been a joy to be around him and teach him the stuff that I know, and to the other kids as well. When he started playing I wanted to be involved in his hockey career. It's a lot of fun for both of us.
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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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For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.
