Hockey Player Quotes

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

  Gordie Howe

  Sports, Hockey, Player

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

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

  Mario Lemieux

  Hockey, Player, Long

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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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• It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

  Eric Lindros

  Hockey, Practice, Effort

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

  Bob Plager

  Funny, Hockey, Player

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

  Bobby Clarke

  Sports, Hockey, Nhl

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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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• Or as hockey player Sergei Fedorov knows it, 'The day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.'

  Craig Kilborn

  Sleep, Hockey, Player

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• Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.

  Mark Messier

  New York, Hockey, Player

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• 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

  Hockey, Player, Nhl

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Sports, Growing Up, Hockey

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• If I can be half the hockey player that Bobby Orr was, I'll be happy.

  Ray Bourque

  Hockey, Player, Nhl

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Athlete

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• I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling.

  Sidney Crosby

  Country, Dream, Hockey

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• I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

  Michael J. Fox

  Growing Up, Ambition, Hockey

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• I know my players don't like my practices, but that's OK because I don't like their games.

  Harry Neale

  Hockey, Player, Games

  "Q&A: New Coyotes Coach Rick Tocchet on a Young Franchise and Lessons From Pittsburgh" by Alex Prewitt, sports.yahoo.com. September 7, 2017.

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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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• Playing goal is like being shot at.

  Jacques Plante

  Hockey, Nhl, Goal

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• One of the key qualities that you need to be a great hockey player is fantastic anticipation and feel for the game - if you know where the puck is going before it is hit, that is half the battle.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Hockey, Player, Keys

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

  Pierre Trudeau

  Baseball, Country, Humorous

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