Hockey Quotes and Sayings
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.
- Stephen Leacock
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
- Tiger Woods
Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded – accordion-style – back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.
- Steve Rushin
I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out.
- Rodney Dangerfield
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
- Gordie Howe
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.
- Stephen Leacock
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
- Wayne Gretzky
Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.
- Doug Larson
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
- John Leonard
A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can’t hit one another.
- Jimmy Cannon
PLANNING VS REACTING: How organized are you? Could your life be called a ballet or is it a hockey game (or a pin-ball machine)? However, even in a hockey game, good hockey player learn to skate to where the puck WILL BE.
- Anonymous
Hockey is a tough game. With all the talk and everything that’s going on right now, it frightens me a little bit that we are giving our players an excuse not to hit. I just hope that we don’t take that out of our game at the pro level.
- Bobby Orr
Certainly we’re not satisfied with just winning games. We’ve been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.
- François de la Rochefoucauld
Street hockey is great for kids.It’s energetic, competitive, and skilful.And best of all it keeps them off the street.
- Author Unknown
I don’t like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don’t like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it’s essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.
- Wayne Gretzky
Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker’s responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.
- Roger Kahn
When I was shooting Drive Me Crazy, I wanted to go out with the rest of the cast and stay up late and play air hockey. I just wanted to have fun.
- Melissa Joan Hart
Hockey players have fire in their hearts and ice in their veins.
- Anonymous
In terms of soccer, it wasn’t really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It’s to each their own, really.
- Parminder Nagra
Hockey players wear numbers because you can’t always identify the body with dental records.
- Anonymous
High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing… everything else is just figure skating.
- Anonymous
Hockey is probably one of the most expensive sports. You have to have a place to play. You have to have the proper equipment. You have to have the transportation to get there.
- Mark Wahlberg
Hockey is the original extreme sport.
- Tom Ward
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.
- Mike Weir
I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available.
- Merlin Olsen
When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.
- Joe Sakic
June 17th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Never give up, especially when its your time to shine. Dont pass the ball when you know for a fact…that you can make that shot. Go PENGUINS! GO STAMPEDE!
May 16th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
hey um guy HOCKEY SUKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 5th, 2009 at 3:06 am
suppor your local dentist, play hockey!
April 27th, 2009 at 6:26 am
HOCKEY IS THE ONLY SPORT YOU CAN HAMMER THE PI$S OUT OF SOMETHING BLACK,AN NOT GET CHARGE FOR IT!
March 24th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Buddy your gonna need fps 15… the back of your neck is getting burnt from the red light.
March 18th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Is hockey hard? “I don’t know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the stamina of a marathon runner, and the concentraion of a brain surgeon. But we need to put all this together while moving at high speeds on a cold and slippery surface while 5 other guys use clubs to try and kill us, oh yeah did I mention that this whole time we’re standing on blades 1/8 of an inch thick? Is ice hockey hard? I don’t know, you tell me. Next question.”-
- Brendan Shanahan -
January 22nd, 2009 at 6:06 pm
whats the difference between a good hockey player and a great hockey player??? TEETH!!!
December 14th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
How about ; “Don’t go through life without..’goals’?”
November 8th, 2008 at 9:16 am
My personal quote: “Can’t check this.”
October 11th, 2008 at 11:41 am
hockey: invented by boys, perfected by girls!
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:48 pm
play for the logo on the front, not the name on the back
August 4th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
It’s not the size of the man in the fight,
It’s the size of the fight in the man.
August 4th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
party like a hockey player
because rockstars are overated
June 29th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
when hell frezees over they’ll have a hockey team too!
June 10th, 2008 at 5:57 am
Hockey is a Mans game Children can play, the other sports are Childrens games that Men play.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:31 am
“Basketball players get the girls, Hockey players take them home.”
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:52 am
So you’re a Canadian hockey player, eh?
April 9th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
“try hard but dont be a try hard”
December 31st, 2007 at 2:11 pm
If your dating a hockey player raise your hands,if your not raise your standards