Ice Hockey Quotes - Page 2

• Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

  Paul Gallico

  Motivational, Hockey, Men

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• I tried to talk my daughter out of going with a hockey player but, he's a good kid. He asked me if he could marry Carrie before he asked her. I said: You want to what? I thought he was just going to ask for more ice time.

  Phil Esposito

  Daughter, Kids, Hockey

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• Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.

  Steve Rushin

  Hockey, Nhl, Style

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• By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series.

  Steve Rushin

  Hockey, Nhl, Games

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• Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

  Stephen Leacock

  Hockey, Winter, Nhl

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• We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

  Bobby Clarke

  Sports, Hockey, Nhl

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  A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Sports, Athlete, Hockey

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• A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Hockey, Player, Puck

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• How would you like a job where, if you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

  Jacques Plante

  Jobs, Mistake, Hockey

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• Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.

  Doug Larson

  Hockey, Nhl, Ice

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• Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental.

  Jim McKenny

  Inspirational, Hockey, Nhl

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• Ever since he's been a little boo-aw.

  Marc Crawford

  Hockey, Nhl, Littles

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• Is hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the stamina of a marathon runner, and the concentration of a brain surgeon. But we need to put all this together while moving at high speeds on a cold and slippery surface while 5 other guys use clubs to try and kill us. Oh yeah, did I mention that this whole time we're standing on blades 1/8 of an inch thick? Is ice hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. Next question.

  Brendan Shanahan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Sports, Baby, Hockey

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• When we've got the puck, they can't score.

  Paul Coffey

  Hockey, Nhl, Puck

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• Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

  Voltaire

  Food, Ice Cream, Cooking

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• It's changed throughout the years, but at one time I was a really big bubble gum ice cream fan. I'd spit the bubble gum pieces in a cup and then collect them.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Ice Cream, Years, Fans

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• I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

  Kenny Baker

  Holiday, Ice, Skating

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

  Steven Chu

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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• Each team has a net liner, a goalie, and five attackers. We have two defenders on the ice and three forwards. Our forwards are left winger, centre man and a right winger. We work as units of five. In ice hockey you go out and you go as hard as you can for 35 to 45 seconds, then we change.

  Gerad Adams

  Team, Hockey, Men

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

  Godfried Danneels

  Ocean, Ice, Cities

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• This was football played at the speed of ice hockey and the ball was in play for only 53 minutes of the 90. The Premiership at its highest level is enthralling, edge-of-the-seat stuff, but sometimes it is too fast and frenetic for its own good.

  Daniel Taylor

  Soccer, Football, Hockey

  "Kenyon's talk is cheap but Chelsea's big ideas need more than money" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2006.

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• My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.

  Shawn Ashmore

  Ice, Water, Molecules

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like other sports, too, including skiing and swimming, and I am learning to play ice hockey now. But judo is definitely part of my life, a very big part, and I am glad that judo was the first sport I took up and that I have practiced it regularly and seriously. I am also grateful to Japan for this.

  Vladimir Putin

  Sports, Grateful, Hockey

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

  Ethel Merman

  Hockey, Fire, Ice

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