Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.
Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.
Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.
Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.
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.
Great moments are born from great opportunities.
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
Every day is a great day for hockey.
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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.
Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental.
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.
Playing goal is like being shot at.
Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself.
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.
You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone.
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.
Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person.
It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.
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