Nhl Quotes - Page 9

• Maybe there wasn't much hot water in the showers. I'm not sure.

  Scott Stevens

  Hockey, Water, Hot

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• You know what? I did! I impressed myself just making it.

  Brett Hull

  Hockey, Knows, Impressed

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• I am not afraid to stop the puck with my head. I try to do it sometimes even in practice; not everyday but once in a while, I say to my teammates, shoot me in my head and I'll try to stop the puck. I am not afraid at all of the puck, so sometimes, if the shot comes at my head, it's an easier save to make with your head. Maybe the people think a different way, but for me, I do it with my head.

  Dominik Hasek

  Hockey, Thinking, Practice

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• If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.

  Pat Burns

  Believe, Hockey, Player

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• I Didn't Drop My Gloves. They Were Pulled Off Me!

  Mike Modano

  Hockey, Gloves

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• People here want the team to win and to do well. The thing is, we know when to shoot the puck.

  Steve Yzerman

  Team, Hockey, Winning

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• This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided.

  Gary Bettman

  Wish, Avoided, Could Have Been

  "NHL cancel remainder of the season". www.cnn.com. February 16, 2005.

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• This is a tragedy for the players. Their careers are short and this is money and opportunity they'll never get back.

  Gary Bettman

  Opportunity, Player, Nhl Lockout

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• When emotions are high, things are said, things are done. Ultimately, these players want to play. I know too many of them love the game too much.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Player, Nhl Lockout, Games

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• I am who I am. Life is too beautiful to be sad, to be depressed. The sun comes up every day and it's beautiful.

  Ilya Bryzgalov

  Beautiful, Hockey, Who I Am

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• Maybe's he's just jealous I have hair.

  Alexander Ovechkin

  Jealous, Hockey, Hair

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• I try to hold it in until I get on the ice, then in front of the net sometimes I'll pass gas.

  P. K. Subban

  Hockey, Ice, Trying

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• I know you define leads by goals having the lead, but we never really had the lead.

  Darryl Sutter

  Hockey, Goal, Knows

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• It's only game. Why you have to be mad?

  Ilya Bryzgalov

  Hockey, Games, Mad

  The Score interview, 2006.

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• We can't play stupid hockey, dumb hockey, greedy hockey, selfish hockey. We have to put the team ahead of our personal feelings.

  Terry Crisp

  Funny, Team, Stupid

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• Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

  Mario Lemieux

  Sports, Growing Up, Hockey

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• Playing 10 years in the NHL, almost 600 games, there's going to be some wear and tear for everybody.

  Mike Comrie

  Years, Games, Tears

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• It's kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL

  Wayne Gretzky

  Ironic, Kind, Broke

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• Sources also confirm that there is no one left in Canada who can remember when hockey was a simple game, played for fun.

  Roy MacGregor

  Fun, Hockey, Simple

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• Ovechkin does not play like a Russian. He plays like an NHL player.

  Vladislav Tretiak

  Player, Play, Doe

  "AP Interview: Ovechkin beams with Russian pride". www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2010.

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• You know there are so many people that have touched your life both on the ice and within your career in the NHL whether it be owners, GMs, coaches, players, trainers, all the way down. And that doesn't even account for all of the people that you encountered outside of the game that you met along this trip, too.

  Ron Francis

  Player, Ice, Games

  "In preparing for Hall induction, writing the speech at top of to-do list". www.nhl.com. November 7, 2007.

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• You're too old to still be playing. I'll buy you a rocker you can sit in.

  Stan Mikita

  Hockey, Rockers, Stills

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• In the playoffs will beats skill.

  Kevin Constantine

  Hockey, Skills, Beats

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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

  Hockey, Thinking, Play

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

  Alex Delvecchio

  Hockey, Toronto, Blocked

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