Nhl Hockey Quotes & Sayings

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. — Paul Coffey

I smile. "Mr. Perfect Beautiful Hockey God?"

"Oh, shut up. You know it's true," she replies in a flat tone. "You should be the face of the NHL. They should put you on billboards in Times Square. You're hot and your charm levels are through the roof. — Victoria Denault

Wrapping Christmas presents is tough. Even peeling a Mandarin orange is tough. I have to get my kids to help me. — Brendan Morrison

Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL. — Wayne Gretzky

You know what? I did! I impressed myself just making it. — Brett Hull

I Didn't Drop My Gloves. They Were Pulled Off Me! — Mike Modano

No one in Montreal learns how to skate. You're just born that way. — Martin Brodeur

Girls, where are you? I can't find you. — Alexander Ovechkin

There are two types of forwards. Scorers and bangers. Scorers score and bangers bang. — Ken Dryden

Maybe's he's just jealous I have hair. — Alexander Ovechkin

I went from junior hockey to the World Junior Championships to the combine and the draft, to the Blackhawks camp, and then a full NHL season and then the World Championships. At nineteen, that's exhausting. — Patrick Kane

Eight days ago, we were the toast of the town. Eight days later we're Thanksgiving turkeys. — Wayne Gretzky

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

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

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

I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk. It must be working, because we haven't lost a game yet. — Tom McVie

If We Lose ... We're All Screwed. — Tony Amonte

He's one of the most coachable players out there. — Jonathan Toews

I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was. — Carol Alt

I just want to comment on how It's become a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in Love with my sloppy seconds — Sean Avery

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

Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor. — Fred Shero

He's a gutless puke, that's what Travis Green is. That's why he doesn't wear an Islander uniform any more. — Mike Milbury

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

The NHL's opinion of itself is so high ... Let them get drunk on their greatness. We'll see how many Euros look our way. — Alexander Medvedev

The kids just aren't the same today. — Doug Gilmour

So here I am running at guys who aren't taller than 5-foot-8, and I'm the one who tears up his knee. — Chris Chelios

We're trying to work on Sami to get through that and shoot the puck. MacInnis shot the puck all the time. If there was a fool who wanted to stand in front and break an ankle, tough luck. — Alain Vigneault

When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL. Now it's kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can't be a good coach because I was a great athlete. — Wayne Gretzky

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

Ever since he's been a little boo-aw. — Marc Crawford

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players. — Gary Bettman

It seems like we're doing just enough to lose by a little. — Darryl Sutter

I'm just glad it wasn't Machete Night. — Bob Froese

You have Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan ... and Mario Lemieux. He's the best in hockey, in my opinion. — Kordell Stewart

Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental. — Jim McKenny

I don't want to get into a 'he said, she said' with the refs ... I'm the he. — Chris Pronger

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

We were a minor league team that didn't feed into any majors, in a town that loved just about every sport but ours. We were going nowhere and we knew it, so why not have fun? In the forties, when I was playing, we were officially the most violent team in the country, and that means probably the whole world, and by the way, that's why I could skate with no toes. A figure skater, a speed skater, an NHL forward, sure, you need your toes for control, but all that finesse takes a backseat when all you're trying to do is slam somebody into a wall and break all his teeth. — Dan Wells

You try to squeeze a little more Charmin in the pads when you face him. — Kevin Hodson

The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us. — Gary Bettman

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept. — Doug Larson

We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital. — Brad Park

Yes, and I also like jumping out of tall buildings. — John Vanbiesbrouck

That's right, Mitt Romney took on Evander Holyfield in a boxing match for charity, and it was a pretty one-sided fight. But it was still not the worst boxing match we've seen this month. This weekend Vladimir Putin played in an exhibition hockey game with some former NHL players and scored eight goals. Even Evander Holyfield and Mitt Romney said, 'That looks fake.' — Jimmy Fallon

It's only game. Why you have to be mad? — Ilya Bryzgalov

My teeth weren't that good to begin with, so hopefully I can get some better ones. — Duncan Keith

Orr is the greatest young hockey player that's come along since I've been here. — Bobby Hull

When he gets mad, it's like he's in another world. He'll look at you with those big eyes and they'll be going around in circles. — Barry Beck

Just use the same quotes. It's the same story. — Bryan Murray

Matt Cooke may be the worst fighter in the history of the National Hockey League. — Dave Nonis

The model for an NHL without fighting is right there in front of us. The [playoffs are] the time of year that fans love best; when the best hockey is played ... [The] enforcers don't play. Even mini-enforcers ... remain on the bench. Teams and coaches can't afford anything stupid and unpredictable ... With no one to fight back for them, players go harder into the corners, more determinedly to the front of the net. If they want to fire up the crowd and their teammates, they have to do it themselves. And in the playoffs, they do. — Ken Dryden

I can't wait for the crowd, the noise, the energy in the building. I can't wait to take that all away from them. — P. K. Subban

Wild Thing made their hearts sing. But he couldn't top everything. — Terry Jones

I had a few fights last year, but I need to take boxing lessons. I need to, because in the NHL it's required. — Maxim Kuznetsov

I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else. — Vincent Piazza

My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world. — Jaromir Jagr

I told her they must all be sold out. — Wade Belak

Its an honor to be chosen to represent the best hockey game in the world, ... Hockey fans are looking for the most authentic experience and NHL 2K6 delivers it. — Brian Boitano

The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted ... That's a pretty scary thought. — Al MacInnis

When you take off that sweater, your jersey, after today's game, you will be the last player in the NHL to ever wear 99. You have always been and you will always be 'The Great One,' and there will never be another. — Gary Bettman

As opposed to living the rich life and consuming as much as possible, people have to take a step back. Instead of buying the biggest diamond or having 18 cars, do other things. Buying the biggest thing is outdated and there is no excuse for it. — Andrew Ference

I'm not sure Mario is going to get accolafes he deserves, especially from outside the game. But from within, the players, the people who follow closely, realize exactly what he's broughtto the table, exactly what he has done. People tend to forget ... hockey was dying in Pittsburgh before he got there. I played there. It was almost dead. I'm sorry, but the NHL would not have a franchise in Pittsburgh today had Mario not come along. Think about it, no hockey in Pittsburgh. — Wayne Gretzky

Every time I see you naked, I feel sorry for your wife. — Jaromir Jagr

Um no, but kind of ... — Joffrey Lupul

Oh, yes, I love sleepless nights. — Larry Robinson

The only difference between the Coyotes and 'Days of Our Lives' is that nobody has been shot on our team yet. — Jeremy Roenick

What I found interesting about Slava Fetisov was that he went through three different generations of Soviet hockey. In the late 70's, he experienced the Miracle on Ice, and then in the 80's became with his teammates the Russian Five, the most dominant team in the history of hockey, and then helped bring down the hockey system when the Soviet Union collapsed and became one of the first players to play in the NHL, and then ultimately came back to Russia. — Gabe Polsky

Over the years, Steve has come to understand I need the clicker. He says it's my security blanket. — Brendan Shanahan