A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
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.
Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental.
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.
Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself.
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
Great moments are born from great opportunities.
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.
How would you like a job where, if you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.
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.
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.
Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.
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