Gaunce Hockey Quotes

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

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet. ~ Paul Gallico

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. ~ Maureen Johnson

Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself. ~ Paul Coffey

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

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

I coach hockey players - some of them just happen to be girls. When I'm coaching youth hockey, I put the boys and girls together and they can't tell the difference. They are just playing hockey. ~ Natalie Darwitz

I have six brothers and one sister. I grew up playing ice hockey, a total tomboy, and that's what I thought I was going to do - be an ice-hockey player. ~ Nicola Peltz

I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles. ~ Mark Messier

I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players. ~ Ted Lindsay

I always played hockey, I was always a hockey fan, but I was never bitten by the hockey bug ... I never looked into playing it professionally. ~ Chris Jericho

Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here. ~ Alexander Gordon Smith

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey. ~ Matthew Perry

At the end of each year I make a list of my mistakes and it's pretty friggin long. ~ Dean Lombardi

Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match. ~ Stan Mikita

I liked hockey, and I still like hockey. ~ Kevin Smith

I'm leaving the game of hockey with nothing but great memories. ~ Joe Sakic

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

I'm a hockey fan; I watch hockey, and I listen to the news. ~ Enrico Colantoni

Women are playing [hockey] because they love it, not because they're trying to be a woman in a man's game. ~ Cammi Granato

If I weren't acting, I think I'd want to be a professional hockey player. ~ Sterling Beaumon

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.

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. ~ Angela Ruggiero

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

Crystal and her friend had taken root behind Aidrian with Erin and Mandy behind Tristan. They looked like they were facing off in a hockey match. The only thing missing was the puck, hockey sticks, the ref, and all the other hockey gear. Never mind. My ~ Tijan

I'm not going to count the dollars before they've come in. ~ Joe Hockey

That hockey game will haunt me until the day I die. ~ Joffrey Lupul

I went to the fights, and a hockey game broke out. ~ Steven Wright

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life. ~ Steven Pinker

If I'm playing hockey, I want to win all the (trophies) I can. ~ Alexander Ovechkin

There is only one way a boy can be sure to learn to play hockey - on the pond, on the creek, on a flooded lot. The foundation of hockey isn't really hockey at all. It's shinny, a wild melee of kids batting a puck around, with no rules, no organization - nothing but individual effort to grab and hold the puck. ~ Lester Patrick

I never got really good at hockey. ~ Gordon Lightfoot

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

I graduated early from high school, but up until I graduated, I was playing high school hockey. I really enjoy hockey. That's definitely what I do on my days off, for sure. ~ Sterling Beaumon

I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age. ~ Bob Dylan

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. ~ Angela Ruggiero

It's never been easy. But I've always wanted to play hockey. I love hockey. I'd rather play hockey than do anything else. If you have that kind of desire, I think you can achieve what you want to achieve. ~ Manon Rheaume

We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games. ~ Fred Shero

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

I went on and was still able to play some good hockey. ~ Paul Coffey

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

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

Canadian hockey players always find a way to get along. ~ Carey Price

There is no escalator to [hockey] success only steps. ~ Glen Sather

You can't just go outside and play hockey. It's more of an expensive sport. ~ Jeremy Roenick

It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up. ~ Peter Forsberg

Needless to say, I personally don't believe fighting should be banned. I don't understand why a relatively small segment of the hockey world feels obligated to ban extracurricular combat when it's so popular elsewhere in American sports. Additionally, the league shouldn't be trying to ban fighting to save the enforcers from hurting themselves. Fighters realize the risks associated with what they do, and they are bound to accept these risks. ~ Brian D'Ambrosio

I know netball is the number one female sport in Australia, but hockey also offers a lot. ~ Casey Eastham

Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight. ~ Frank Deford

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. ~ Mario Lemieux

L.A. will never be a hockey town. I'm a huge hockey fan, and people out here do not appreciate hockey as much as they should. I've always been into it. I'm Canadian; that's my sport for sure. ~ Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Everything I did in hockey, I worked for. ~ Wayne Gretzky

My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters! ~ Norm MacDonald

When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. That's just the way it was. ~ Teemu Selanne

The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven't been skating as a kid it's impossible to play - and I wasn't a skater. ~ Liev Schreiber

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. ~ Junior Seau

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

I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too! ~ Nancy Kerrigan

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

I guess time flies when you're playing hockey every day and getting laid every night. ~ Sarina Bowen

There are some guys you definitely would not want dating your sister - especially hockey players. ~ Patrick Kane

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

You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates. ~ Joe Sakic

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept. ~ Doug Larson

Why doesn't the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie? ~ Steven Wright

A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another. ~ Jimmy Cannon

Why do Canadians like to do it doggie style? So they can both keep watching the hockey game ~ Norm Crosby

Hockey is the original extreme sport. ~ Tom Ward

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

Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners. ~ Robert Orben

The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys. ~ Jay Baruchel

Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them. ~ Wayne Gretzky

An avowed homosexual, that would never be accepted in hockey - never! Because it's a milieu where everyone is often naked. ~ Pat Burns

I always look forward to playing in Toronto because it's such a historic city when it comes to hockey. ~ Alexander Ovechkin

Whether you're trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, I've always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether it's as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that. ~ Sidney Crosby

Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids. ~ Bobby Hull

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

Or as hockey player Sergei Fedorov knows it, 'The day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.' ~ Craig Kilborn

Hockey's my favorite sport. ~ Denis Leary

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 poorest people either don't have cars or actually don't drive very far in many cases. ~ Joe Hockey

Hockey has given me everything, most importantly it brought me to Swift Current, where I met my wife Deb. ~ Joe Sakic

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

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them. ~ Julie Bowen

In a weird way, [hockey] is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one. ~ Michael Vartan

I wasn't scared (during his first at-bat). I just told them (Mo Vaughn & Kevin Mitchell') to give me all that hockey equipment (forearm pad & shin guard respectively). ~ Roger Clemens

It's like when he walked out that door, he took some part of me with him. ~ Kendall Ryan

One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy. ~ George Vecsey

There are certain guys that think they know hockey because they follow it on the Internet. ~ Paul Coffey

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

There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that. ~ Keith Allen

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six. ~ Ted Lindsay

I don't think you can really expect to win a hockey game giving up three power-play goals. In reality, you cant give up those and that's the difference in the hockey game. ~ Randy Carlyle

I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates. ~ Ben Stiller

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice. ~ Ethel Merman

They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building them. ~ Johnny Carson

Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey - let's face it, true Canadian - fan. I've always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I'm not crazy about hockey - but love it! ~ Dustin Milligan

Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous. ~ David Walton

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing. ~ Shawn Mendes

I am a pretty tough guy. I'm an old hockey player. ~ Jim Flaherty