Peewee Hockey Quotes

It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet. ~ Jimmy Connors

If you don't know how to play hockey, learn. If you quit, get back out there. ~ David Walton

First of all, it's a curse. Voodoo. As soon as a guy gets put on the cover of The Hockey News, it's like Sports Illustrated. He goes right into the tank. ~ Dean Lombardi

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

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

No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example. ~ Brian Oldfield

I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that. ~ Phil Jackson

Winning is always fun, but the car is more important. ~ Teemu Selanne

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

Before … everything." She laughs a little. "Before I had the chance to fall in love. I dreamed of you. You didn't have a face or a name. Your voice was simply a medley of my favorite love songs, the whisper in my head when reading my favorite poems about love. You were the reason I woke up two hours before school to do my hair and makeup in hopes that some boy would give me a second glance. It was you … the idea of you. The dream of you. The promise from my adoring mother that someday I would find my Romeo. When my brain managed to think about something other than hockey or boys … my heart was still thinking of you. ~ Jewel E. Ann

OK, they fire the puck from the blue line. Chief usually yelling 'block the shot' at the defensemen. They doesn't have the goalie gear, but they have to block the shot. So who is more crazy, me or the defensemen? Who is more weird? ~ Ilya Bryzgalov

Football, you can go out and buy a football and play it in your backyard. Basketball, you can go out and play it in the schoolyard or in your driveway. Baseball, you get a glove and a bat and a ball and you go out and play in the neighborhood. You can't do that in hockey. ~ Jeremy Roenick

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

My dad was so influential in my career. It was a fulfillment of every athlete's dream. I dreamed about it as a kid. We played hockey in the backyard. We had silver buckets we carried around like the Stanley Cup. It was everything that you would hope. ~ Matt Cullen

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

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are. ~ Althea Gibson

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

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

I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters. ~ Leander Paes

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

Hullie's a lot like a garbage can. You step on the pedal with your foot and the top opens up. ~ Wayne Gretzky

Bobby Orr had lots of moves and speed. You had to be careful or he would make you look like a fool. Jacques was impresed how quickly he caught up to Yvan Cournoyer one night when the Habs were playing the Bruins. I didn't think the kid had that kind of speed. ~ Jacques Lemaire

I saw a hockey game where they threw the puck aside and just started fighting. I saw that, and I'm like, 'So I'm the thug?' ~ Richard Sherman

Hockey is my favorite because I'm from Michigan. I used to figure-skate and root for the Red Wings. ~ Jana Kramer

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

That's Jake Donovan? It figured he was a hockey player. They were her kryptonite. ~ Alley Ciz

Letting her head hang, all she could do was think what a freaking mess she had gotten herself into.

And not even Ben & Jerry's could get her out of this. ~ Toni Aleo

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

I love hockey. That's actually one of my favorite sports. ~ Ashley Wagner

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain. ~ Pierre Trudeau

I don't think the summer is short. I would rather play hockey than work out in the gym. It would be tougher if summer was longer. You have your two or three weeks to take off. You have plenty of time to go back and see family and friends. I don't want summer to be any longer. ~ Henrik Zetterberg

I want something real. Something that leads to something more than sex. ~ Victoria Denault