Nhl Quotes

I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me. ~ Patrick Roy

The NHL's opinion of itself is so high ... Let them get drunk on their greatness. We'll see how many Euros look our way. ~ Alexander Medvedev

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

Most people have friends, but no money. I have the opposite. I don't have a chance to talk to my real friends, the ones I've had since I was 5 years old. Sometimes I wish I could bring Czechoslovakia to America. Then I would be the happiest guy in the world. ~ Jaromir Jagr

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

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

I was 13 or 14 and I met Donald Trump at a bar mitzvah of a good friend of ours, who's friends with him. He had his girlfriend at the time with him, that Melania with him. He said, 'Hey guys, if you work hard and be successful, you'll get one of these.' I'll never forget that. And now he's married to her. ~ Jason Spezza

If they can play eight more years, then I can too. I'm in better shape than they are. ~ Teemu Selanne

I look at it as a challenge, ... I'm not going to put too much added pressure on myself. I want to play in the NHL, and after that [happens], I can worry about things beyond that. ~ Sidney Crosby

Right now I'm scoring goals and I'm the king of the world. And a couple weeks ago I was almost in the toilet. So maybe you just forget to flush me. ~ Alexander Ovechkin

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco. ~ Don Maloney

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

He's one of the most coachable players out there. ~ Jonathan Toews

His face is so calm, He shows no sign of stress or anything. Its as if he's saying, "No problem. Relax. I'm just going to beat you now. It's not going to hurt a bit." ~ Dominic Roussel

Doing a good impression of a backup goalie the last few weeks. ~ Roberto Luongo

The Honda Center is a wonderful arena. And it's a great arena, not only for the NHL, but it would be a great arena for an NBA team. ~ Henry Samueli

That's great. I'm 100 years old and people are still interested. ~ Grant Fuhr

By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I'm still healthy. ~ Wayne Gretzky

Ever since he's been a little boo-aw. ~ Marc Crawford

As opposed to living the rich life and consuming as much as possible, people have to take a step back. Instead of buying the biggest diamond or having 18 cars, do other things. Buying the biggest thing is outdated and there is no excuse for it. ~ Andrew Ference

We're trying to work on Sami to get through that and shoot the puck. MacInnis shot the puck all the time. If there was a fool who wanted to stand in front and break an ankle, tough luck. ~ Alain Vigneault

I had a few fights last year, but I need to take boxing lessons. I need to, because in the NHL it's required. ~ Maxim Kuznetsov

You have Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan ... and Mario Lemieux. He's the best in hockey, in my opinion. ~ Kordell Stewart

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

The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us. ~ Gary Bettman

There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending. ~ Vladislav Tretiak

I have to thank the guy who fired me because he was also the guy who hired me. ~ Serge Savard

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

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

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

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players. ~ Gary Bettman

It's tough in the NHL; you have to produce on a high level. And everybody expects you to do it because you make a lot of money. And I never minded it. I always want to be that guy. ~ Jaromir Jagr

This is really a new NHL and it's built on speed and young guys. ~ Mario Lemieux

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

Guys like him ruin it for everybody else. It's just embarrassing. Or maybe he's not embarrassed because he probably believes he's not doing it-that's how liars are. ~ Chris Chelios

When you take off that sweater, your jersey, after today's game, you will be the last player in the NHL to ever wear 99. You have always been and you will always be 'The Great One,' and there will never be another. ~ Gary Bettman

Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL. ~ Guy Lafleur

I went from junior hockey to the World Junior Championships to the combine and the draft, to the Blackhawks camp, and then a full NHL season and then the World Championships. At nineteen, that's exhausting. ~ Patrick Kane

A big part of my decision is not made about whether I'm able to coach in the NHL or if I'm ready to step up and take that challenge. Basically, it's about my family, it's about my children, and this is where my decision is going to have to be made. ~ Patrick Roy

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

If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl. ~ Pat Burns

I think the game has gotten better. (The two-ref system) keeps players from taking cheap shots behind the play. I never thought I'd like it, considering the way I like to hack. ~ Brian Skrudland

I don't train to look good in the mirror. I train to make improvements in my game. ~ Duncan Keith

I am not afraid to stop the puck with my head. I try to do it sometimes even in practice; not everyday but once in a while, I say to my teammates, shoot me in my head and I'll try to stop the puck. I am not afraid at all of the puck, so sometimes, if the shot comes at my head, it's an easier save to make with your head. Maybe the people think a different way, but for me, I do it with my head. ~ Dominik Hasek

We can no longer ignore the stupidity of the hits that are still happening today despite the fact that the players know the concussion aspect is such a big part of the game and sports in general. ~ Jeremy Roenick

You never have enough competition at any position, ... Several of the players listed at right wing have played center in the NHL, like Trevor Linden. Some can play both wings. I've been skating on a line with the Sedin twins. They are a lot more skilled than some people give them credit. Look at their point totals and they are right up there in their point-per-minute averages. My job will be to complement them and try to get our line to provide secondary scoring behind the big line of Naslund, Bertuzzi and Morrison. Those guys look good and I expect they'll be the top line in the NHL again. ~ Anson Carter

The model for an NHL without fighting is right there in front of us. The [playoffs are] the time of year that fans love best; when the best hockey is played ... [The] enforcers don't play. Even mini-enforcers ... remain on the bench. Teams and coaches can't afford anything stupid and unpredictable ... With no one to fight back for them, players go harder into the corners, more determinedly to the front of the net. If they want to fire up the crowd and their teammates, they have to do it themselves. And in the playoffs, they do. ~ Ken Dryden

As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the NHL, but never did I expect it to be as much fun as it turned out to be. ~ Ron Francis

I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed. ~ Adam Oates

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way. ~ Guy Lafleur

A lot of people don't realize that I started my career in sports and was a sports reporter long before I was on television. I used to be an NBA reporter and an NHL reporter. ~ George Stroumboulopoulos

When emotions are high, things are said, things are done. Ultimately, these players want to play. I know too many of them love the game too much. ~ Wayne Gretzky

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. ~ Carol Alt

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

I had to pinch myself seeing the grassy knoll and the book suppository building. ~ Trevor Linden

I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk. It must be working, because we haven't lost a game yet. ~ Tom McVie

We don't care what that bug-eyed fat walrus has to say. ~ Brandon Prust

The greatest athletes in the world play in the NHL there is no question about that. ~ Joe Bowen

To me, Kane's always been a good guy, a good teammate. I think now he's got a girlfriend. You can tell, he's 24, turning 25, he's not 18 or 19 anymore. It's kind of fun seeing him and Toews get a little bit older, have girlfriends. They're starting to stay in on a Friday night, watch a movie instead. ~ Duncan Keith

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

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me. ~ Keanu Reeves

What scares me is how easily it happened. ~ Mark Recchi

We should've been better, more disciplined. We made untimely mistakes defensively, as a group. This is really humbling for us. After winning the Stanley Cup, we got brought back down to earth, hard. Maybe the humbling is good for us in the long run. ~ Steve Yzerman

When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL. Now it's kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can't be a good coach because I was a great athlete. ~ Wayne Gretzky

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

We were a minor league team that didn't feed into any majors, in a town that loved just about every sport but ours. We were going nowhere and we knew it, so why not have fun? In the forties, when I was playing, we were officially the most violent team in the country, and that means probably the whole world, and by the way, that's why I could skate with no toes. A figure skater, a speed skater, an NHL forward, sure, you need your toes for control, but all that finesse takes a backseat when all you're trying to do is slam somebody into a wall and break all his teeth. ~ Dan Wells

The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand; the NHL has less to lose, and it's in their best interest to generate buzz any way they can. ~ Bill Simmons

I don't want to get into a 'he said, she said' with the refs ... I'm the he. ~ Chris Pronger

The only job worse is a javelin catcher at a track - and - field meet. ~ Gump Worsley

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

The fighting in the NHL, especially, and, I think, in some of the minor leagues, it's usually the loudest and the most excited the crowd gets during the entire the game. ~ John Branch

I'm going through the neutral zone and I've got a guy tugging me through the whole way, if I don't go down, I'm not going to get a call. ~ Paul Kariya

Usually, I'm on the bus by now, having a beer and waiting for everyone else. This is cutting into my beer time. ~ Craig Berube

I don't want to talk about today's market anymore because nobody can make sense of what the market is. It's all over the map. There's a bunch of lunatics out there throwing money away. I'm sick and tired of it. It's lunacy. Punch me in the head and tell me I'm stupid, but that's the way I feel. There's no sense to it anymore. ~ Kevin Lowe

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

It's kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL ~ Wayne Gretzky

Every time I see you naked, I feel sorry for your wife. ~ Jaromir Jagr

We're scared of losing. That's why we win. We know what it's like to lose and we hate it. We enjoy being champions too much. ~ Bob Bourne

It seems like yesterday I was up there watching my first NHL game, and I was skating on the ice this time. It brings back memories, but at the same time it's something I'll remember forever. ~ Sidney Crosby

It's good for the NHL to implement different things - the 3-on-3, money that'll go to players - to try to get us to play at a higher level. ~ Patrick Kane

I'm obviously into the sports. The NFL games and the NHL games. ~ Jeremy Roenick

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted. ~ Mario Lemieux

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings. ~ Steve Yzerman

The kids just aren't the same today. ~ Doug Gilmour

One road trip we were stuck on the runway for seven hours. The plane kept driving and driving until we arrived at the rink and I realized we were on a bus. ~ Glenn Healy

Peter Forsberg's skills and determination made him one of the most powerful forwards in the NHL during the best years of his career. Hearing of his retirement is sad news but one day every athlete has to come to this decision. He should be very proud of all he accomplished throughout his career. ~ Patrick Roy

The goal is too small and the goalies are too big. ~ Scotty Bowman

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

Oh, yes, I love sleepless nights. ~ Larry Robinson

It seems like we're doing just enough to lose by a little. ~ Darryl Sutter

Wrapping Christmas presents is tough. Even peeling a Mandarin orange is tough. I have to get my kids to help me. ~ Brendan Morrison

At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened. ~ Wayne Gretzky

Sure, Daniel wears number 22 and Henrik number 33. ~ Marc Crawford

I'm 100 percent sure this is it. I know that I'll never play in the NHL again. It's not a hard decision. I think the hardest thing is you get a little emotional talking about your family. I couldn't have played any longer than I did and I accomplished what I wanted to. ~ Chris Chelios

Forget about style; worry about results. ~ Bobby Orr

Brooks wanted to abandon the traditional, linear, dump-and-chase style of hockey that had held sway in North America forever. He wanted to attack the vaunted Russians with their own game, skating with them and weaving with them, stride for high-flying stride. He wanted to play physical, un-yielding hockey to be sure, but he also wanted fast, skilled players who would flourish on the Olympic ice sheet (which is 15 feet wider than NHL rinks) and be able to move and keep possession of the puck and be in such phenomenal condition that they would be the fresher team at the end. ~ Wayne Coffey

I need to see where I am physically and practicing with NHL players is the best way to find that out. ~ Mary Lynn Rajskub

Every time you sustain a head injury, the risk gets higher and higher. I always said that if there ever was a point where the risk was more than minimal, I would stop playing. ~ Pat LaFontaine

Anybody who says they don't like fighting in the NHL have to be out of their minds. ~ Donald Stewart Cherry

My teeth weren't that good to begin with, so hopefully I can get some better ones. ~ Duncan Keith