Ice Hockey Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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

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

  Jim McKenny

  Inspirational, Hockey, Nhl

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

  Doug Larson

  Hockey, Nhl, Ice

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

  Bobby Clarke

  Sports, Hockey, Nhl

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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

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• Ever since he's been a little boo-aw.

  Marc Crawford

  Hockey, Nhl, Littles

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• I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Sports, Baby, Hockey

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• Is hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the stamina of a marathon runner, and the concentration of a brain surgeon. But we need to put all this together while moving at high speeds on a cold and slippery surface while 5 other guys use clubs to try and kill us. Oh yeah, did I mention that this whole time we're standing on blades 1/8 of an inch thick? Is ice hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. Next question.

  Brendan Shanahan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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

  Paul Coffey

  Hockey, Nhl, Puck

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• Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

  Voltaire

  Food, Ice Cream, Cooking

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• The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.

  Harry Sinden

  Hockey, Nhl, Singing

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• Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.

  Nicholson Baker

  Ice Cream, Spoons, Sauce

  Nicholson Baker (1996). “The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber”, Vintage

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• I like other sports, too, including skiing and swimming, and I am learning to play ice hockey now. But judo is definitely part of my life, a very big part, and I am glad that judo was the first sport I took up and that I have practiced it regularly and seriously. I am also grateful to Japan for this.

  Vladimir Putin

  Sports, Grateful, Hockey

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I've always felt we weren't physical enough on the back line. Now there's a no - parking sign in front of our net.

  Dean Lombardi

  Hockey, Nhl, Lines

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• Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

  Ovid

  Time, Hate, Anger

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• Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon.

  Gene Hart

  Hockey, Names, Nhl

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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, Hockey, Nhl

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

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

  John Vanbiesbrouck

  Hockey, Jumping, Nhl

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• They do a lot of talking, but I'm not sure they actually understand each other.

  Darren McCarty

  Hockey, Talking, Nhl

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