Disalvatore Hockey Quotes

As a kid in New Zealand, you play cricket in summer and rugby in winter. I played cricket and hockey. Not rugby. I wasn't brawny enough for it. Or silly enough, perhaps. ~ Glenn Turner

It's kind of good to get that evil monkey off my back! ~ Stefan Cherneski

His eyes are a hazy swirl of
gray, like a thick mass of clouds gathering before an impending storm ~ Elle Kennedy

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on. ~ Bill Goldberg

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical. ~ Wayne Gretzky

I've played hockey most my life and I've never been badly injured ... Three weeks into curling I've got bone chips in both my elbows. I still can't lean on a table. I've even got curling injuries, believe it or not, just from falling on my arse. ~ James Allodi

The guillotine has to fall somewhere when the team under-produces, and more times than not it's fallen on me. ~ Dustin Penner

Audrey didn't understand Piper's obsession with Erik. Yes, he was insanely gorgeous, with dark hair and dark sexy eyes, but he gave off a dick vibe. Piper was such a sweet and funny girl, and Audrey really didn't think they would be good together. But apparently Erik Titov did it for Piper, and who was she to question it? She herself was in love with an ass-hat and lusting over a child. She was in no place to judge anyone on their lusty needs. ~ Toni Aleo

But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it. ~ Daley Thompson

Hockey suffers from being compared to itself in ways that other sports are not. Every four years, some of us fawn over Olympic hockey, a great event with bigger rinks, minimal goonishness and national pride in addition to the heightened skills of veritable all-star squads. ~ George Vecsey

Bobby would drive to the net injured, he would drive to the net hurt. He played that way every night. He told Bobby that he was the one who made him famous. ~ Derek Sanderson

Maybe's he's just jealous I have hair. ~ Alexander Ovechkin

Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun. ~ Bobby Orr

Keys parachuted down into one of the exact seats he purchased that he and his father sat in as season ticket holders in the Old Barn on Grand River Avenue. Keys slipped his arm around the empty chair dressed with his father's withering Tiger's baseball cap, secured to the seat with a quarter inch drywall screw. Keys reflected upon his father, who chauffeured Keys and other players, every weekend, to a hockey tournament somewhere, "You know pop…every kid you gave a ride too game or practice, came to your funeral. When this hat falls away, no more screws, pop. I'm gonna branch out…make new friends. Soon as these gypsy moths get a hold of your precious, Old English "D", here--turn your glory years, Kaline and Mclain into tree threads. ~ Kevin Moccia

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

I don't want to get into being too hockey centered, but I just felt like the late 70's and 80's into the 90's was the right time period to tell the story. ~ Gabe Polsky

There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty. ~ Stan Mikita

In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the sport is. But in hockey, you have the boards. I just couldn't say which is more physical. ~ Sidney Crosby

If people see North American hockey and they see violence and brutality and it's not so interesting, that sends a message too about your culture. ~ Gabe Polsky

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess. ~ Louis Dudek

Its an honor to be chosen to represent the best hockey game in the world, ... Hockey fans are looking for the most authentic experience and NHL 2K6 delivers it. ~ Brian Boitano

Without the support of my mom, Marlene, I would not be the person I am. She has been my main supporter throughout my career, and I owe everything to her. This is a small way that we, as players, can pay tribute to her and other hockey moms, and it is all for a good cause. ~ Sean Avery

There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey game. Either or, they don't do justice to the media and you end up with a hybrid that is purely sensationalistic. Opera is a very theatrical medium that should be seen on a stage with the musicians in the pit in the audience. ~ Christoph Waltz

The worst part about the job is the travel, which takes you away from family and friends and important dates and hockey games and tournaments that your kids are in and things like that. ~ Joe Bowen

There's an old saying that when it gets tough the tough get going. You have to work your way through these things. ~ Ed Belfour

Never mind what makes Canada's constitution so special. Probably something to do with hockey, or the inalienable right to poutine, or securing the blessings of Rick Moranis. ~ Kevin Bleyer

Hello, sex on legs ~ Toni Aleo

I grew up in Michigan, so I played hockey, football and basketball. I played a little bit of lacrosse, too. My brother played more lacrosse and ran track. ~ Steven Yeun

I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool. ~ Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Patrick," she warned. "I'm not joking. We obviously have a bit of chemistry . . ." She rubbed a bit of oil onto her fingers and then started in on the muscles just above his knee.
He snorted. "We have a bit of chemistry. And hockey has a bit of violence. We practically burned down your bed together. ~ Sarina Bowen

I can't wait for the crowd, the noise, the energy in the building. I can't wait to take that all away from them. ~ P. K. Subban

Playing goal is like being shot at. ~ Jacques Plante

We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate. ~ Kenneth R. Miller

I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling. ~ Sidney Crosby

You cannot make money with a hockey team. You cannot make money with a hotel, either, and you cannot make money with a golf club. I have all three of them. When you have a certain amount of money, you do silly things - because it's pretty to have a golf course and it's interesting to have a hockey team. ~ Hasso Plattner

I think we've been through a lot this season and it will be nice to move on. It's one step at a time though. The focus of our hockey club was great. We really stuck to our game plan and didn't get too high or too low and we definitely didn't get over excited. ~ Martin Brodeur

I throw away stacks of newspaper and catalogs, bills that probably went unpaid for years, plastic bags of hangers and wires, and the hockey stick. ~ Holly Black

I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse. ~ Nicole Ari Parker

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big. ~ Joan Cusack

The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in. ~ Bobby Orr