Hockey Quotes

• 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.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Football
  • Hockey

• 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.

  

  Richard Sherman
  • Men
  • Fighting
  • Games

• I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work.

  

  Bobby Orr
  • Work
  • Hockey

• I am a pretty tough guy. I'm an old hockey player.

  

  Jim Flaherty
  • Guy
  • Pretty
  • Player

• I don't like hockey. I'm just good at it.

  

  Brett Hull
  • Good
  • Like
  • Hockey

• 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?

  

  James Badge Dale
  • Walking
  • Fate
  • Hockey

• 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.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • School
  • Religion
  • Catholic

• 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.

  

  Brad Roberts Crash Test Dummies
  • Opportunity
  • Playing
  • Regions

• 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.

  

  Darcy Tucker
  • Thinking
  • Stupid
  • Hockey

• 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.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Up
  • Time
  • America

• The greatest hockey player who ever lived: Bobby Orr, and I love him.

  

  Donald Stewart Cherry
  • Player
  • Hockey

• 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.

  

  Mario Lemieux
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Career

• I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.

  

  Kevin Durand
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Sidney Crosby
  • Learn
  • Hockey
  • Observant

• I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

  

  Jeremy London
  • Sports
  • Hockey

• I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.

  

  Brendan Fehr
  • Hockey

• 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.

  

  Jonathan Toews
  • Why
  • Player
  • Hockey

• 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.

  

  Marcel Dionne
  • People
  • Experience
  • Career

• Despite the fact that every sport this side of badminton worries about concussions that result in brain damage, CTE, the National Hockey League refuses to accept the overwhelming medical science. Good grief - the NHL still permits fights.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Good
  • Science
  • Brain

• 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.

  

  Bobby Hull
  • Kids
  • Game
  • Hockey

• I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, "You can like Mozart and ice hockey..." - and then I used to say "golf," but Tiger took over golf! - "and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades."

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Ice
  • Harvard
  • Tigers

• 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.

  

  David Leitch
  • War
  • Hockey

• My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Time
  • School
  • Team

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