Nhl Player Quotes & Sayings

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

Single ladies, we are not Damsels in Distress ... we are Divas that Impress! — Mandy Hale

In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years. — Jonathan Kozol

Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. — Stephen Samuel Wise

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

It is, after all, envy rather than jealousy that causes most of the trouble in married life. — Anthony Powell

The NHL is the best in the world, it has the best players. I love the NHL. — Alexander Ovechkin

Not many people bothered to look for beauty beyond the greenhouses. They went about life with their heads down, just praying to get through the day, to feed themselves and their family. No one ever did anything to make it better. — Erica Lindquist

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

If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I'd choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros. — Wayne Gretzky

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

In a speech at Bar Ilan university, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time endorses the establishment of a Palestinian state. — Martin Bunton

We can no longer ignore the stupidity of the hits that are still happening today despite the fact that the players know the concussion aspect is such a big part of the game and sports in general. — Jeremy Roenick

All the other chiefs and tribes have accepted the Great Law of Peace. They now live in peace with one another. — Hiawatha

Your future is in your own hands; let no one decide it but you". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy. — Dan Marino

You never have enough competition at any position, ... Several of the players listed at right wing have played center in the NHL, like Trevor Linden. Some can play both wings. I've been skating on a line with the Sedin twins. They are a lot more skilled than some people give them credit. Look at their point totals and they are right up there in their point-per-minute averages. My job will be to complement them and try to get our line to provide secondary scoring behind the big line of Naslund, Bertuzzi and Morrison. Those guys look good and I expect they'll be the top line in the NHL again. — Anson Carter

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

Yes, it is very likely that I shall be killed tomorrow,' he thought. And suddenly at this thought of death a whole series of most distant, most intimate, memories rose in his imagination: he remembered his last parting from his father and his wife; he remembered the days when he first loved her. He thought of her pregnancy and felt sorry for her and for himself, and in a nervously emotional and softened mood he went out of the hut in which he was billeted with Nesvitsky and began to walk up and down before it. — Leo Tolstoy

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

I think the deal is not great for the players. It is definitely an owner-friendly deal. — Jeremy Roenick

The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still. — Ajahn Chah

There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever. — Ashay Abbhi

Ovechkin does not play like a Russian. He plays like an NHL player. — Vladislav Tretiak

I played with Joey Mullen back in Salt Lake City before he got called up to St. Louis. He was the first player ever to score 20 goals in the American League and 20 in the NHL. I've kept in contact with him and he's a great guy. — Alain Vigneault

I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful. — Malcolm McLaren

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives. — Edward Dahlberg

He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine. — G.K. Chesterton

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