Ice Hockey Quotes

• Playing goal is like being shot at.

  Jacques Plante

  Hockey, Nhl, Goal

  5 Copy quote

• I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire.

  Bobby Hull

  Hockey, Millionaire, Divorced

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  11 Copy quote

• That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my (expletive) clothes.

  Stu Grimson

  Hockey, Names, Clothes

  4 Copy quote

• Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person.

  Jeremy Roenick

  Nice, Cocky, Mean

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  44 Copy quote
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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

  157 Copy quote

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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

  4 Copy quote
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  All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

  Gordie Howe

  Sports, Hockey, Player

  90 Copy quote

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

  Bobby Clarke

  Sports, Hockey, Nhl

  5 Copy quote

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

  Jim McKenny

  Inspirational, Hockey, Nhl

  41 Copy quote

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

  Jimmy Cannon

  Hockey, Player, Puck

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

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

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Sports, Fighting, Hockey

  56 Copy quote

• It's not who wins the fight that's important, it's being willing to fight. If you get challenged and renege, everyone wants to take a shot at you.

  Barclay Plager

  Fighting, Hockey, Winning

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  41 Copy quote

• 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

  41 Copy quote
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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

  125 Copy quote

• Every day is a great day for hockey.

  Mario Lemieux

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hockey

  62 Copy quote

• 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

  16 Copy quote

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

  Doug Larson

  Hockey, Nhl, Ice

  4 Copy quote

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

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  62 Copy quote

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

  Paul Coffey

  Hockey, Nhl, Puck

  4 Copy quote

• I don't like hockey. I'm just good at it.

  Brett Hull

  Hockey, Nhl

  4 Copy quote