A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.
We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone.
It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.
Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.
Playing goal is like being shot at.
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.
You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.
I know my players don't like my practices, but that's OK because I don't like their games.
Or as hockey player Sergei Fedorov knows it, 'The day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.'
If I can be half the hockey player that Bobby Orr was, I'll be happy.
Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.
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.
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
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.
or simply:
