Ice Hockey Quotes

• 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

• 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

• Playing goal is like being shot at.

  Jacques Plante

  Hockey, Nhl, Goal

  5 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

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

  Jeremy Roenick

  Nice, Cocky, Mean

  6 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

  158 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Gordie Howe

  Sports, Hockey, Player

  90 Copy quote

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

  Paul Coffey

  Hockey, Nhl, Puck

  4 Copy quote

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

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  73 Copy quote

• Every day is a great day for hockey.

  Mario Lemieux

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hockey

  63 Copy quote

• 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

  Hockey, Nhl, Driving

  3 Copy quote

• The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward.

  Terry Crisp

  Hockey, Nhl, Differences

  5 Copy quote

• He brings something special. I don't know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn't understand his answer.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Hockey, Nhl, Special

  3 Copy quote

• This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.

  Steven Tyler

  Party, Hockey, Nhl

  3 Copy quote

• It would have been worse if we hadn't blocked the kick after Toronto's second touchdown.

  Alex Delvecchio

  Hockey, Nhl, Toronto

  3 Copy quote

• There are two types of forwards. Scorers and bangers. Scorers score and bangers bang.

  Ken Dryden

  Hockey, Nhl, Two

  46 Copy quote

• At the end of each year I make a list of my mistakes and it's pretty friggin long.

  Dean Lombardi

  Mistake, Hockey, Years

  3 Copy quote

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

  Brett Hull

  Hockey, Nhl

  4 Copy quote

• I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.

  Mark Messier

  Motivational, Hockey, Thinking

  6 Copy quote

• Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.

  Chico Resch

  Jobs, Hockey, Naps

  42 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