Famous Quotes & Sayings

They were awesome. I'm not going to come up with any excuses. They played very inspirational hockey tonight.

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.

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.

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.

Gina Lollobrigida

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

Keith Tkachuk

I feel I have a lot of hockey left.

Gary Roberts

It was a very stressful time for all of us. We were sitting up here in Pittsburgh for a hockey game, and they were going through a hurricane.

Scott Stevens

I've been able to do a lot of things and I couldn't do before because of hockey. I was a hockey where it was hockey 24/7 for 23 years. It's been nice to do other things and not really have a schedule.

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.

Chris Osgood

I've told you guys before, goalies don't think.

Chris Jericho

I always played hockey, I was always a hockey fan, but I was never bitten by the hockey bug... I never looked into playing it professionally.

Mike Fisher

I think we've bounced back and really been resilient. Even after a bad period, we take over and we seem like we're on a mission. That comes with leadership and experience and a lot of things. A lot of it is mental toughness and resiliency in the situation you're at, just trusting in your teammates.

Terry Crisp

On rookie Alex Selivanov, Yes the guy can score you 40 goals. Yes I love it. What I don't want is him causing 60.

Terry Crisp

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

Teemu Selanne

If they can play eight more years, then I can too. I'm in better shape than they are.

Ted Lindsay

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

Frank Deford

Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.

Jonathan Toews

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

Kevin Smith

I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.

Kevin Bleyer

Never mind what makes Canadas constitution so special. Probably something to do with hockey, or the inalienable right to poutine, or securing the blessings of Rick Moranis.

Kevin Constantine

Potential is synonymous with getting your ass kicked.

Kevin Constantine

In the playoffs will beats skill.

Kevin Constantine

We only speak two languages here: English and profanity.