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Posted by :	Mick Spruce
Posted on :	February 28, 2010
Last Modified on :	February 28, 2010

Top 77 Hockey Quotes

1 ”A fast body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their
feet.” - Paul Gallico

2 ”A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player
plays where the puck is going to be.” –Wayne Gretzky

3 ”All that means is that I`ll be 783
years old when I catch Scotty Bowman.” - Kevin Constantine

4 ”Aw, don`t worry about that Doc.
If it happens I could always come back as a forward.” - Harold Snepsts

5 ”Continuous effort -
not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking your potential.” - Liane Carlos

6
”Either you give it right back or the next thing you know everyone and his brother will be trying
you on for size.” - Doug Harvey

7 ”Goaltending is a normal job, sure. How would you like it
in your job if every time you made a small mistake, a red light went on over your desk and 15,000
people stood up and yelled at you.” - Jacques Plante

8 ”Hockey is the only job I know where
you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.” - Chico Resch

9 ”I guess they respect my
shot because they were all ready at the blue line.” - Patrick Way

10 ”I know my players don`t
like my practises, but that`s OK because I don`t like their games.” - Harry Neale.

11 ”I
skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.” - Wayne Gretzky

12 ”I
think he knows all my tricks. Or the fact I don`t have any tricks - Brendan Shanahan on trying to
score against Curtis Joseph. I`m hoping for a bench clearing brawl during the warm up so I can go
out and grab his stick.” - Ron Tugnutt

13 ”I was happy to have an attraction in our building
that we didn`t have to pay for.” - Harold Ballard

14 ”Ice hockey is a form of disorderly
conduct in which the score is kept.” - Doug Larson ”Hockey`s the only place where a guy can go
nowadays and watch two white guys fight.” - Frank Deford

15 ”I`d be lying to you if I said
guys weren`t afraid of him. I`m afraid of him, afraid of him running in to me.” - Paul Laus

16
”If you`ve only got one day to live, come see the Toronto Maple Leafs. It`ll seem like forever.
” - Pat

17 ”It takes brains. It`s not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and
not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.” - Chris Chelios

18 ”It would have been
worse if we hadn`t blocked the kick after Toronto`s second touchdown.” - Alex Delvecchio

19
”It`s not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it`s what you put into
the practice.” - Eric Lindros

20 ”It`s too easy when you`re not winning to look for excuses
and point at others for reasons. ”You ca say "Oh well, it`s this guys fault or they don`t do this
well" or you can say "I`ve got to play better and contribute more". You`ve got to find another gear
and come up with big games.” - Sean Burke

21 ”Last season we couldn`t win at home and we were
losing on the road. My failure was that I couldn`t think of any place else to play.” - Harry
Neale

22 ”My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars.”- Bobby
Hull

23 ”Our first priority was staying alive. Our second was stopping the puck.” - Glenn
Hall

24 ”Our system of forechecking is to shoot the puck and leave it there.” - Harry
Neale

25 ”People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles
and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be
directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles.” - Wayne
Gretzky

26 ”The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal
Sassoon

27 ”The three important elements of hockey are: forecheck, backcheck and paycheck.” -
Gil Perreault

28 ”The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.” - Joe
Paterno

29 ”To his US Olympic team - Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you
played like tomorrow.” - John Mariucci

30 ”Until we get an apology we,re not going to win a
game. We vow not to win until we get an apology from Bettman.” - Dixon Ward

31 ”We take the
shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.” - Bobby Clarke

32 ”What a player does
best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.” - Duke Snider ”The five S`s of sports
training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill and spirit, but the greatest of these is spirit.” -
Ken Doherty

33 ”When I look at the net I don`t see a goalie.” - Pavel Bure

34 ”When I
look at the net I see 2 or 3 goalies.” - Radek Dvorak.

35 ”Winners never quit, and quitters
never win.” - Unknown

36 ”Yes, and I also like jumping out of tall buildings.” - John
Vanbiesbrouck

37 ”You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you
feel shame, you know, and then you get free.” - Denis from SlapShot

38 ”You miss 100% of the
shots you never take.” - Wayne Gretzky

39 ”Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his
name on the Stanley Cup in crayon.” - Gene Hart

40 ”Call them pros, call them mercenaries --
but in fact they are just grown-up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or flooded corner lot
that hockey is the greatest thrill of all. - Lester Patrick

41 ”Get used to this phrase: how
could both referees have missed that?” - Mike Brophy

42 ”Goaltenders are 3 sandwiches shy of
a picnic. From the moment primitive man lurched erect, he survived on the principle that when
something hard and potentially lethal comes toward you at great velocity, get the hell out of it`s
path.” - Jim Taylor

43 ”Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental.” - Jim
Mckenny

44 ”He brings something special. I don`t know what it is, but if you ask him, you
couldn`t understand his answer.” - Wayne Gretzky

45 ”He had better get married soon, because
he`s getting uglier every day!” - Mark Recchi "They were checking us so closely, I could tell what
brand of deodorant they were using." - Gary Dornhoefer

46 ”Hockey is a man`s game. The team
with the most real men wins.” - Brian Burke

47 ”Hockey is like a disease, you can`t really
shake it.” - Goaltender Ken Wregget

48 ”Hockey would be a great game... if played in the
mud.” - Jimmy Cannon

49 ”I don`t like hockey. I`m just good at it.” - Brett Hull

50 ”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

51 ”I grabbed it and
squeezed it back into place. It gave a little crunch and popped right in.” - Jay Wells

52 ”I
had all my own teeth and I wanted to keep it that way.” - Tom Glavine

53 ”I just made up my
mind that I was going to lose my teeth and have my face cut to pieces.” - Johnny Bower

54 ”I
skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.” - Wayne Gretzky

55 ”I
wouldn`t ever go into a season trying to re-build from scratch. You can`t trade good players for
high picks because the world ends at the end of each season. Live with the idea that the world is
flat and you`re coming to the edge” - Neil Smith

56 ”I`d drink more.” - Bobby Hull

57
”I`d rather fight than score.” - Dave "The Hammer" Schultz

58 ”If hockey fights were fixed,
I`d be in more of them.” - Rod Gilbert

59 ”If I get run into again, I`m taking someone with
me. I lost one knee. I`ll take a head if it happens again.” - Grant Fuhr

60 ”If I play badly
I`ll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I`ll break a guy`s leg to win, I don`t
care. Afterward I say, `Yeah all right I played badly, but I won the fight so who gives a damn.” -
Derek Sanderson

61 ”If you train hard, you`ll not only be hard, you`ll be hard to beat.” -
Herschel Walker

62 ”I`m not dumb enough to be a goalie. - Brett Hull

63 ”It`s going to be
good to be on his side for a change. I`ll save a lot of energy since I don`t have to concentrate on
whacking him. I`m pretty excited about that. - Doug Gilmour

64 ”I`ve always felt we weren`t
physical enough on the back line. Now there`s a no-parking sign in front of our net.” - Dean
Lombardi

65 ”I`ve told you guys before, goalies don`t think. - Chris Osgood "Ever since he`s
been a little boo-aw." - Marc Crawford

66 ”Playing goal is like being shot at.” - Jacques
Plante

67 ”Some guys play hockey. Gretzky plays 40mph chess.” - Lowell Cohn

68
”Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.” - Gerry
Cheevers

69 ”That`s so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my xxxx clothes!”
- Stu Grimson

70 ”The hockey lockout of 1994-1995 has been settled. They have stopped
bickering... and can now get down to some serious bloodshed!” - Conan O`Brien

71 ”The only
way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.” -
Harry Sinden

72 ”They do a lot of talking, but I`m not sure they actually understand each
other.” - Darren McCarty

73 ”They say you`re not a coach in the league till you`ve been
fired. I must be getting pretty good.” - Terry Simpson

74 ”We take the shortest route to the
puck and arrive in ill humor.” - Bobby Clarke

75 ”We`re right next to Mile High Stadium. I`m
no rocket scientist, but...uh...(smile).” - Brian Skrudland

76 ”We`ve made a final offer. We
hope Ziggy Palffy will come to his senses. We have NO hope his agent will.” - Mike Milbury

77
”You miss 100% of the shots you never take.” - Wayne Gretzky

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