Browsing Topic Best Hockey Player Quotes

Canadian hockey players always find a way to get along.

I don’t know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I’d get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.

I find that I’ve tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the same time, I’ve also made it a point to increase or grow in some other area of my life. If I were just playing hockey, I would probably be done with the sport.

We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don’t even have to go to the hospital.

I still love hockey. It’s just I’m at a different stage of my life and I think I’m just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

Hockey players wear numbers because you can’t always identify the body with dental records.

Let’s make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.

Orr is the greatest young hockey player that’s come along since I’ve been here.

Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they’re too tough to cry.

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

I found my prince – he’s a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I’d ever expect to meet someone, but there he was.

As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where its packed every night, theres nothing like it.

Or as hockey player Sergei Fedorov knows it, ‘The day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.’

Why don’t they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be awesome. The team from Mexico could wear those Mr. X masks. The French wrestler could hit his opponent with a baguette. Or perhaps just surrender.

I’m an absolutely dreadful hockey player.

I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, ‘I’m going to be a hockey player.’

I know my players don’t like my practices, but that’s OK because I don’t like their games.

I always wanted to play professional hockey. Every hockey player’s dream, no matter at what level or what age, is to play professionally. At first you don’t know what it’s all about, but you have that dream and you always work hard toward it. The older you get, the more you start dedicating yourself to the game.

My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.

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

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.

I guess the prime example is in North America there’s a thing where if there’s no opportunity to move forward with the puck, then a [hockey] player is told to dump the puck into the other zone. Just give up the puck and dump it in. Give it to the other team. And to the Soviet mentality in coaching, it just doesn’t make any sense. If you’re a skilled player, why are you going to give the puck away to the other team? Just give it away, right?

In the U.S., coaches could be the father next door. They had no formal training. They’re like old hockey players. They don’t go to school and study.

You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

Playing goal is like being shot at.

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

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

A good ice hockey player is someone who has good communication skills, is willing to listen and willing to try new things. It’s a very technical game and not that easy to pick up. It’s a lot of fun but you just have to be patient.

He’s a gritty hockey player, he’s got good vision, he’s an intelligent player.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

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

You see a hockey player, you’d never know he’s a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.

We’re not only hockey players. A lot of guys have families and girlfriends. You can’t just think about hockey 24-7.