Famous Quotes & Sayings

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!

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.

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.

Mario Lemieux

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

Mario Lemieux

When I'm able to see the ice ahead of time when I get the puck, I'm able to make some pretty good plays.

Mario Lemieux

Since the beginning, I always loved the game.

Mario Lemieux

I don't order fries with my club sandwich.

Mario Lemieux

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

Michael Cera

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

Michael Buble

I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.

Mark Recchi

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

Al Oerter

It has to be the '80 Olympic hockey team.

Liev Schreiber

No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.

Libba Bray

I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick. -Gemma Doyle Trilogy

Lester B. Pearson

This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.

Marian Hossa

You want to see one of the top players in your lineup. He's a big part of this hockey club.

John Tortorella

All we're looking for is just an opportunity to try to get out of this and find some way to win a hockey game.

You could see who the stronger hockey team was.

It?s been frustrating since Day One. There?s things that need to be addressed in a huge way. It?s been frustrating on a personal level and a hockey level. I know a lot of other people feel the same way.

Stephen Leacock

Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

Randy Carlyle

When you lose the shootout, you feel like you lost the hockey game, ... But we didn't lose the hockey game. We lost a point and they gained a point. That's the reality of it.

Randy Carlyle

Obviously, we were fortunate to win the hockey game, and we'll take it, because there have been some games that we haven't been fortunate enough in. I don't think we played exceptionally well from any standpoint, other than our first period. And our goaltender really stole the game for us. In all reality, you have to give him credit for the win. He stole the points.

Ron Francis

I always said put me in front of 40 or 50,000 people and play hockey, I'm comfortable there. Put me in front of 50 people to talk or get in front of, and that's where I'm probably the least comfortable.

Ron Francis

I played my age. Not bad.

Stan Mikita

You're too old to still be playing. I'll buy you a rocker you can sit in.

Stan Mikita

If you play to win as I do, the game never ends.