Funny Hockey Quotes

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

Gordie Howe

Sports, Hockey, Player

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High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating.

Scotty Bowman

Funny, Fighting, Hockey

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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Wayne Gretzky

Sports, Athlete, Hockey

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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

Wayne Gretzky

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

Wayne Gretzky (2000). “99 My Life in Pictures”, Mint Pub

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Is hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the stamina of a marathon runner, and the concentration of a brain surgeon. But we need to put all this together while moving at high speeds on a cold and slippery surface while 5 other guys use clubs to try and kill us. Oh yeah, did I mention that this whole time we're standing on blades 1/8 of an inch thick? Is ice hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. Next question.

Brendan Shanahan

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.

Bob Plager

Funny, Hockey, Player

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Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental.

Jim McKenny

Inspirational, Hockey, Nhl

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

Doug Larson

Hockey, Nhl, Ice

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I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

Rodney Dangerfield

Sports, Fighting, Hockey

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I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching.

Patrick Roy

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Wayne Gretzky

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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How would you like a job where, if you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

Jacques Plante

Jobs, Mistake, Hockey

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

Brad Park

Jobs, Hockey, Nhl

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Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person.

Jeremy Roenick

Nice, Cocky, Mean

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When we've got the puck, they can't score.

Paul Coffey

Hockey, Nhl, Puck

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By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series.

Steve Rushin

Hockey, Nhl, Games

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Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all, it keeps them off the street.

Gus Kyle

Kids, Hockey, Energetic

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Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.

Steve Rushin

Hockey, Nhl, Style

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Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

Stephen Leacock

Hockey, Winter, Nhl

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I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire.

Bobby Hull

Hockey, Millionaire, Divorced

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I tried to talk my daughter out of going with a hockey player but, he's a good kid. He asked me if he could marry Carrie before he asked her. I said: You want to what? I thought he was just going to ask for more ice time.

Phil Esposito

Daughter, Kids, Hockey

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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

Hockey, Nhl, Driving

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That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my (expletive) clothes.

Stu Grimson

Hockey, Names, Clothes

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It's not who wins the fight that's important, it's being willing to fight. If you get challenged and renege, everyone wants to take a shot at you.

Barclay Plager

Fighting, Hockey, Winning

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On his attempt at the Edmonton Oilers empty net: I guess they respect my shot because they were all ready at the blue line.

Patrick Roy

Hockey, Blue, Edmonton

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