Hockey Coach Quotes

• You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone.

  Herb Brooks

  Inspirational, Motivational, 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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• Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Volleyball, Business, Inspirational Life

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Volleyball

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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

  Paul Coffey

  Hockey, Nhl, Puck

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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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• 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

  Pride, Hockey, Nhl

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Pain

  "Walking Together Forever: The Broad Street Bullies, Then and Now". Book by Jim Jackson, January 5, 2005.

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• You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

  Herb Brooks

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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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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• 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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• Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character

  Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

  Bobby Clarke

  Sports, Hockey, Nhl

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

  Jimmy Cannon

  Hockey, Player, Puck

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

  Jim McKenny

  Inspirational, Hockey, Nhl

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  Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Motivational, Sports, Congratulations

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

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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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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• 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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• Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor.

  Fred Shero

  Hockey, Nhl, Puck

  "Hockey Shorts" by Glenn Liebman, September 1, 1996.

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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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• The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward.

  Terry Crisp

  Hockey, Nhl, Differences

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