Goalies Quotes - Page 2

• The goal is too small and the goalies are too big.

  Scotty Bowman

  Hockey, Nhl, Goal

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• We got the goals early in the game and I thought we just got a little too comfortable with things. They started changing their defense, they started going from a zone defense to a man-to-man and doing different things. We got sloppy, and I give them credit for the way they played. We got sloppy and had some turnovers there. We did have some opportunities, one-on-one with the goalie in the second there, but we need to finish things. They found some momentum in their defense and were able to crawl back in.

  John Desko

  Opportunity, Men, Games

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• In biblical times, I stoned people to death. Now they are repaying me by hurling pucks at my head.

  Gilles Gratton

  Biblical, Hockey, People

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• When I played in a 21-team league, there were six or seven goalies who were just average, and the equipment and pads were smaller. I came in the right era. I played for the right team. It was all speed, and creativity and imagination.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Team, Creativity, Average

  "Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life". Interview with Jonathon Gatehouse, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• When I look at the net I don't see a goalie.

  Pavel Bure

  Hockey, Focus, Looks

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• I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie.

  Chris Osgood

  Hockey, Winning, Years

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• Each team has a net liner, a goalie, and five attackers. We have two defenders on the ice and three forwards. Our forwards are left winger, centre man and a right winger. We work as units of five. In ice hockey you go out and you go as hard as you can for 35 to 45 seconds, then we change.

  Gerad Adams

  Team, Hockey, Men

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back : with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.

  Xavi

  Beautiful, Soccer, Team

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• I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs.

  Andy Gray

  Football, Legs, Vulnerable

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• You don't feel sorry for yourself, you get on with life. 
  (after not being picked starting goalie)

  Jens Lehmann

  Sorry, Germany, Starting

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• I'm not on this earth to be a goalie. I'm not here to stop somebody from accomplishing their goals. If you're not hurting anybody, I'm here to either assist or get out of the way

  Kyle Kinane

  Hurt, Accomplishment, Goal

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• Doing a good impression of a backup goalie the last few weeks.

  Roberto Luongo

  Hockey, Nhl, Lasts

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• My grandfather has been very depressed lately. He just doesn't know what to do. He says it's late in the game, and he's afraid that life has him beaten." "Tell him to take out the goalie.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Games, Grandfather, Late

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• I have recall. I don't know why or how. I had a guy once who said he played against me in novice [league, for kids under nine], for the Detroit Lasers. And I said, "Oh yeah, we beat you in the tournament, 8-1 and I think I scored seven goals, and the goalie was left-handed." And he was, "Oh my God. I was the goalie!" .

  Wayne Gretzky

  Kids, Thinking, League

  "Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life". Interview with Jonathon Gatehouse, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• Why doesn’t the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?

  Steven Wright

  Hockey, Men, World

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• Leon, no offense, but you don't exactly look like a hockey player." "I told 'em I was a goalie. That's where they put the guy who can't skate, right? Just like in baseball when they put the worst player at catcher.

  Steve Hamilton

  Baseball, Hockey, Player

  Steve Hamilton (2007). “Winter of the Wolf Moon: An Alex McKnight Mystery”, p.119, Macmillan

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• They're happy to be Siamese twins. They feel blessed. But the rest of us have to go through the world alone. And they don't. And because they have this great attitude, they have a lot of friends. They were the kings of the prom. You know, they were in the state championship hockey team. You know, they're the goalie. And it's just they're a couple of winners who happen to be Siamese twins.

  Peter Farrelly

  Kings, Couple, Attitude

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• Well, I've got something to tell you, In my last life I was a Spanish Count and one of the things I loved to do when I was a count in Spain was take all the commoners, line them up against a wall and throw rocks at them, being a professional hockey goalie is punishment for my bad habits in past lives.

  Gilles Gratton

  Wall, Hockey, Past

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• In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Team

  "Johan Cruyff: Former Real Madrid President Ramon Calderon Pays Tribute To A ‘Visionary’" by Ramon Calderon, www.newsweek.com. March 24, 2016.

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• The first thing I would do when I saw Bobby coming down at me was to say a little prayer if I had time. I'm sure I wasn't the only goalie who did that.

  Johnny Bower

  Prayer, Hockey, Nhl

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• I think we came out and got the first goals fairly easily and fairly quickly. All of a sudden they started to change the defense and they changed things up on us and I thought we got a little too comfortable. I give their goalie credit, he made some very good saves, but we just wanted to score. We changed some things halfway through the fourth quarter and we were able to generate some shots. I think for most of the year we've been good on offense. We haven't really struggled like that. We knew coming into the season that we'd have to share the ball on offense and really be efficient.

  John Desko

  Thinking, Years, Giving

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• Challenging someone is good. You need to do it. Sometimes they don't even realize you're doing it, like when you joke with a goalie, 'What's wrong today? You losing it?

  Sidney Crosby

  Challenges, Today, Needs

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• When I played in Holland, I always tried to lob the goalkeeper. People used to say, 'Oh, you're always only trying to make a nice goal'. But I said, 'Listen, if the goalie is a little bit off his line, how much space do you have on his left or right?' It's not a lot. 'And how much space do you have above him?

  Dennis Bergkamp

  Nice, Space, People

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• Over the weekend, Vladimir Putin scored eight goals during a hockey game. It happened just after he had the goalie executed.

  Conan O'Brien

  Hockey, Weekend, Games

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• I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn't play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.

  John Katzman

  Team, Kids, Son

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