Hockey Quotes - Page 30

• It only hurt once, from beginning to end.

  James Counsilman

  Sports, Hurt, Ends

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• It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

  Ann Trason

  Inspirational, Running, Hurt

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• It's never been easy. But I've always wanted to play hockey. I love hockey. I'd rather play hockey than do anything else. If you have that kind of desire, I think you can achieve what you want to achieve.

  Manon Rheaume

  Sports, Thinking, Play

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• When life is suddenly more serious more of the time, there is also more need for it to be fun at least some of the time. That's why my family will be at a college football game this weekend. We need it. And deserve it, too. Not like a New York fireman deserves it. Or a medic at the Pentagon. But enough.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Football, New York

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• In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are seen, worldwide, as an enormously competitive, enthusiastic people who work as hard as we play and play as hard as we work. When baseball - which has traditionally canceled one day of games for huge national celebrations or disasters - stops play for six days, that has reverberations in the national consciousness.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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• The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.

  Bud Selig

  Sports, Country, Mean

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• One thing about this game: It's really frustrating. In hockey, if you team's losing, you can start a fight. You can get your frustrations out.

  Eric Gagne

  Team, Fighting, Frustration

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• Before, baseball was something to do to get ready for the hockey season. Now, people look to play baseball, period. It's something you stick with.

  Jason Bay

  Baseball, Play, People

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• My parents, especially my dad, had a big influence on my hockey career. He introduced me to the game when I was younger, and I stuck with it.

  Steven Stamkos

  Dad, Careers, Games

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• 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

  Dad, Team, School

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

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• I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can't cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Sports, Football, Believe

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• I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.

  Ty Simpkins

  Summer, Baseball, Winter

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• I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Girl, School, Lacrosse

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• When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being shown to have finagled their data, as in that ludicrous "hockey stick" graph, pretending to prove that the world had suddenly become much hotter than at any time in 1,000 years. Any theory needing to rely so consistently on fudging the evidence, I concluded, must be looked on not as science at all, but as simply a rather alarming case study in the aberrations of group psychology.

  Christopher Booker

  Years, Data, Psychology

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• I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Team, Avid, Years

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Ice, Two, Ballet

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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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• Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

  Martina Hingis

  Baseball, Player, Tennis

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• A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

  Ted Lindsay

  Attitude, Rumor, Detroit

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• The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.

  Michael E. Mann

  Icons, Would Be, Sticks

  "Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.

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• I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

  Clara Hughes

  Ice, Goes On, Worried

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• A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.

  Henry Hudson

  Ice, Sea, Danger

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• An avowed homosexual, that would never be accepted in hockey - never! Because it's a milieu where everyone is often naked.

  Pat Burns

  Naked, Accepted, Homosexual

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• Whether the guys are nervous or just had mental breakdowns, it happens. The game is a game of mistakes. And how you deal with them and correct them and all the things like that is what makes this game great and makes hockey the sport it is.

  Chris Pronger

  Sports, Mistake, Games

  "Off-Day News: Leighton To Start Game 2, Carcillo Back In? Pronger Gets Feisty At Presser". Interview with Tim Panaccio, www.broadstreethockey.com. May 30, 2010.

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• You get a pretty good read by watching the play, and knowing what you would have done - having done most of the things that these guys are accused of doing. I put myself in their shoes: Would I have been wanting to send a message? Is it a hockey play that went a little sideways?

  Chris Pronger

  Play, Shoes, Knowing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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