Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hayley Wickenheiser

I hear they had our flag on their dressing room floor. I wonder if they'd like us to sign it?

Heston Blumenthal

It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.

Henry Hudson

A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.

Joe Thornton

It's a good start. Seems like all the lines have chemistry right now. It's tough to tell after one game, but with only one practice all the guys looked like the flowed pretty good out there after the first period.

Jimmy Cannon

Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud.

Jimmy Cannon

A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.

Eric Lindros

People on the streets are ready for hockey.

Eric Lindros

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

Gary Bettman

The National Hockey League will miss Brett's skill, his scoring touch and his fun-loving attitude,

Scoring and points have become more important than winning hockey games. We've got to get it out of our game.

said Burns, who described a year without professional hockey as ''boring.

John Muckler

Right now, we don't have any hot irons in the fire. Have we been talking to teams? Yes. Do we want to make a move? Only if it betters our hockey club. And we don't want to do it by subtraction, only addition.

Brian Campbell

They're a big hockey club. We've got to keep using our speed.

A lot of teams in junior hockey go on a three-year cycle. We wanted to put together a competitive team every year.

Your peak years in hockey aren't until 27 to 32, so I still have a lot to learn and a long ways to go. There's a lot more to come from me. This is just the tip of the iceberg for me.

Ken Hitchcock

You don't want to start out next weekend trying to find your hockey game.

Gordie Howe

You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.

Gordie Howe

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.

Herb Brooks

This is your moment. You're meant to be here.

Herb Brooks

When you pull on that jersey, you represent yourself and your teammates, and the name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back. Get that through your head!

Herb Brooks

You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone.

Ethel Merman

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

Gina Lollobrigida

A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.

Jesse Owens

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

Jacques Plante

Playing goal is like being shot at.

Jacques Plante

Only a goalie can appreciate what a goalie goes through.

Christopher Heyerdahl

I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.

Gary Bettman

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

Gary Bettman

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.

Chris Pronger

You get a pretty good read by watching the play, and knowing what you would have done - having done most of the things that these guys are accused of doing. I put myself in their shoes: Would I have been wanting to send a message? Is it a hockey play that went a little sideways?

Chris Pronger

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

George Vecsey

One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy.

Chris Osgood

I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie.