Famous Quotes & Sayings

There's nothing better in hockey than knocking the snot out of somebody, right?

Mike Richter

Most fans go wild when they see a goalie make what looks like a great save, but the chances are what they are seeing is a save that was made from being out of position.

Mike Babcock

Some guys score and some guys don't. We got a lot that don't.

Mikael Samuelsson

It showed nothing. I'm not pregnant.

Ken Hitchcock

If I'd known it was going to take 25 years, I'd have started earlier.

Jay Inslee

If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

Jarome Iginla

He was yelling pretty urgently. There's different pitches of yell and he was screaming.

Jaromir Jagr

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

Jaromir Jagr

Old people, don't watch it because you might die just watching it.

Patrick Kane

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.

Pat Burns

He's as old as some trees.

Pat Burns

An avowed homosexual, that would never be accepted in hockey - never! Because it's a milieu where everyone is often naked.

Pat Burns

People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

Patrice Bergeron

Anything coach Babcock needs me to do, I'll do it and if it's face-off well, I'm willing and ready to do that obviously.

Jodi Picoult

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.

Joe Sakic

Hockey has given me everything, most importantly it brought me to Swift Current, where I met my wife Deb.

Joe Sakic

When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.

Joe Sakic

You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.

Joe Sakic

I didn't know that I'd like it this much, coaching both boys and... seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice.

Ice T

Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

Ken Dryden

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

Kristi Yamaguchi

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

Kordell Stewart

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

Jeremy Roenick

We don't want you at the rink, we don't want you in the stadium, we don't want you to watch hockey,

Jeremy Roenick

Obviously ice hockey's much faster. You play street hockey, most likely, with a ball. Where the puck is more difficult to maneuver with. There's not too many things that are different. Playing on the ice is totally, totally different than playing on the street. It's totally a different game in that aspect.

Glen Sather

You can have all the talent in the world, but if the pumper's not there, it doesn't matter.

Glen Sather

I won't miss him. Maybe the West Edmonton Mall will miss him, but not me.

Glen Sather

There is no escalator to [hockey] success only steps.

Harry Sinden

The remedy now is two scotches and an aspirin, I think.

Harry Sinden

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

Larry Robinson

Oh, yes, I love sleepless nights.

Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.