Hockey Quotes - Page 6

• There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.

  Stan Mikita

  Dirty, Player, Rough

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• Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

  Bobby Hull

  Sports, Anger, Winning

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• I have to thank the guy who fired me because he was also the guy who hired me.

  Serge Savard

  Nhl, Guy

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• It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.

  Chris Chelios

  Thinking, Nhl, Play

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• Yes, and I also like jumping out of tall buildings.

  John Vanbiesbrouck

  Jumping, Nhl, Building

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• When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.

  Joe Sakic

  Thinking, Nhl, Canada

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• All that means is that I'll be 783 years old when I catch Scotty Bowman.

  Kevin Constantine

  Mean, Years, Nhl

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• I just tape four Tylenols to it.

  Boris Mironov

  Nhl, Tape, Four

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• You try to squeeze a little more Charmin in the pads when you face him.

  Kevin Hodson

  Nhl, Trying, Littles

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• You win with people, not with talent. So the quality of the people is very important in building your team. I always looked for people with a solid value system. Then I recruited kids from a cross-section of different personalities, talents and styles of play.

  Herb Brooks

  Inspirational, Team, Kids

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  The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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• Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport - or into any job for that matter - you won't succeed.

  Phil Esposito

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "One on One with Phil Esposito" by Andrew Podnieks, www.hhof.com. February 18, 2002.

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• It's always good to have the building filled - even if it's with low-IQ Rangers fans.

  Mike Milbury

  Nhl, Fans, Building

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• I'm hoping for a bench clearing brawl during the warm up so I can go out and grab his stick.

  Ron Tugnutt

  Nhl, Benches, Sticks

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• You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

  Junior Seau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Athlete

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• Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

  Tiger Woods

  Basketball, Sports, Sexy

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• Wayne came over to the bench one day after seeing (Zdeno) Chara, and said 'That's why I'm quitting.'

  John Muckler

  One Day, Benches, Quitting

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• How would you like it if, at your job, every time you made the slightest mistake a little red light went on over your head and 18,000 people stood up and screamed at you?

  Jacques Plante

  Jobs, Mistake, Light

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• I had all my own teeth and I wanted to keep it that way.

  Tom Glavine

  Sports, Nhl, Way

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• If I get run into again, I'm taking someone with me. I lost one knee. I'll take a head if it happens again.

  Grant Fuhr

  Running, Nhl, Lost Ones

  Grant Fuhr, Bruce Dowbiggin (2014). “Grant Fuhr: The Story of a Hockey Legend”, p.150, Random House Canada

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• One road trip we were stuck on the runway for seven hours. The plane kept driving and driving until we arrived at the rink and I realized we were on a bus.

  Glenn Healy

  Nhl, Driving, Road Trip

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• We've made a final offer. We hope Ziggy Palffy will come to his senses. We have NO hope his agent will.

  Mike Milbury

  Nhl, Agents, Finals

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• Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor.

  Fred Shero

  Nhl, Puck, Ill

  "Hockey Shorts" by Glenn Liebman, September 1, 1996.

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• I'm just glad it wasn't Machete Night.

  Bob Froese

  Night, Nhl, Machetes

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• My teeth weren't that good to begin with, so hopefully I can get some better ones.

  Duncan Keith

  Nhl, Teeth, Hopefully

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