Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eugene Levy

Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough city thing is fine. Its always had a reputation as that. ... You know, Gordie Howe, when I was watching hockey, was the toughest guy in the league playing for the Red Wings. He represented that tough aura.

Ethel Merman

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

Al Oerter

It has to be the '80 Olympic hockey team.

George Vecsey

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

Guy Lafleur

Play every game as if it's your last one

Guy Lafleur

You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.

Guy Kawasaki

Hockey is the only thing that I'm not good at that I love.

Ryan Smyth

He's settling in great. Tonight was a huge win for him. He kept us in the hockey game.

Ilya Bryzgalov

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

John Tortorella

I focus on the dumbness of Hagelin... He played a hell of a game but that's all washed off from dumbness.

John Tortorella

Because he stinks on the power play. He stinks. I don't know why. I wish I could put him on the power play, but every time I put him on, he stinks.

Michael Vartan

In a weird way, [hockey] is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one.

Scott Stevens

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

Scott Stevens

What kind of respect do I get? ... Just because I'm a physical player, it's O.K. to come at me and do what you want? Hey, it's a hockey game. It's not figure skating. You know what? I can take a hit and I can give a hit. I don't care who it is. No one gets a free ride out there. I don't get a free ride, and no one gets a free ride from me.

Ray Bourque

If I can be half the hockey player that Bobby Orr was, I'll be happy.

Ray Bourque

Goals live on the other side of obstacles and challenges. Be relentless in pursuit of those goals, especially in the face of obstacles. Along the way, make no excuses and place no blame.

Sky Ferreira

I wear whatever makes me comfortable on stage, so that I feel confident. Some days it's a plaid skirt with a button-up and other days it's jeans with a hockey jersey and platforms.

Mark Recchi

He had better get married soon, because he's getting uglier every day!

Maureen Johnson

The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts...nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.

Matthew Perry

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

Matisyahu

Before I was 14, I wanted to be a singer, an actor, or a hockey player. By 15, I knew I was going to be a singer.

Pat LaFontaine

If you've only got one day to live, come see the Toronto Maple Leafs. It'll seem like forever.

Mike Milbury

I don't like being mediocre. I won't be.

Mike Milbury

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

Screw the Rangers, and screw the Devils; I work for the Islanders now, and I could care less about them!

Mike Milbury

It's always good to have the building filled - even if it's with low-IQ Rangers fans.

Mike Milbury

We've made a final offer. We hope Ziggy Palffy will come to his senses. We have NO hope his agent will.

Mike Modano

On Sergei Fedorov's breaking three sticks on Dallas players: I don't know if Anna (Kournikova) told him to get tougher or what.

Mike Modano

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

Norm Crosby

Why do Canadians like to do it doggie style? So they can both keep watching the hockey game

Mike Weir

Playing hockey, there were a lot of guys bigger than me, so I knew I was going to get hit and have to deal with it. Gotta hit back.

Michael Richards

It's a big game tomorrow, obviously, quarter finals. I think that whenever you play the Russians you always get up for it, and tomorrow is going to be even that much bigger, the quarter finals.

Mario Lemieux

Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be.