Hockey Team Quotes

• You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.

  Joe Sakic

  Team, Hockey, Player

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• A hockey team is like a puzzle. Every piece is vital.

  Bob Hartley

  Team, Hockey, Pieces

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• Great moments are born from great opportunities.

  Herb Brooks

  Inspirational, Sports, Hockey

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

  Eric Lindros

  Hockey, Practice, Effort

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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Jim McKenny

  Inspirational, Hockey, Nhl

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  I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Wayne Gretzky (2000). “99 My Life in Pictures”, Mint Pub

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• I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Sports, Fighting, Hockey

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• Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.

  Bob Plager

  Funny, Hockey, Player

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

  Doug Larson

  Hockey, Nhl, Ice

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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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• 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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• Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all, it keeps them off the street.

  Gus Kyle

  Kids, Hockey, Energetic

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• We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.

  Brad Park

  Jobs, Hockey, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Gordie Howe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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  All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

  Gordie Howe

  Sports, Hockey, Player

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• The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Motivational, Sports, Dog

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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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• Playing goal is like being shot at.

  Jacques Plante

  Hockey, Nhl, Goal

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• This is your moment. You're meant to be here.

  Herb Brooks

  Hockey, Moments, Meant To Be

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• High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating.

  Scotty Bowman

  Funny, Fighting, Hockey

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