Hockey Quotes - Page 14

• The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.

  Saku Koivu

  Unique, Player, Thinking

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• Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.

  Gary Bettman

  Baseball, Team, Player

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• The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys.

  Jay Baruchel

  Dad, Fighting, Boys

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He knows all the golf lingo. You know? You hit your ball, he's like "there's a golf shot. That's a golf shot." Well of course it's a golf shot; I just hit a golf ball. You don't see Gretzky skating around going "there's a hockey shot, that's a hockey shot."

  Bill Engvall

  Funny, Humor, Golf

  "Here's Your Sign". Comedy, 1996.

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• But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Growing Up, California, Truth Is

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• If the government is to try and ban private consumption of alcohol and tobacco, it must surely ban such activities as hang-gliding, skiing, rock-climbing and so on. Where should it stop? Rugby? American Football? Ice Hockey?
  Insofar as the government has information not generally available about the merits or demerits of the items we ingest or the activities we engage in, let it give us the information. But let it leave us free to choose what chances we want to take with our own lives.

  Milton Friedman

  Football, Rocks, Government

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• I wasn't scared (during his first at-bat). I just told them (Mo Vaughn & Kevin Mitchell') to give me all that hockey equipment (forearm pad & shin guard respectively).

  Roger Clemens

  Giving, Bats, Kevin

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

  Mario Lemieux

  Player, Long, Remember

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• When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. Thats just the way it was.

  Teemu Selanne

  Children, Kids, Way

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• 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

  Mom, Player, Careers

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• I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?

  James A. Michener

  Girl, Men, Bed

  James A. Michener (2014). “Caravans: A Novel of Afghanistan”, p.72, Dial Press

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• Is that a beard, or is Niedermayer eating a muskrat?

  Harry Neale

  Nhl, Beard, Eating

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• The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

  Gary Bettman

  Nhl, Priorities, Canada

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• It's lacrosse that helped teach me to spin off checks, take shots and protect the puck under pressure. My stick skills, the way to read the play quickly comes from lacrosse. The hand-eye coordination, is just one of the little things that helps you in hockey.

  John Tavares

  Eye, Skills, Hands

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• Canadian hockey players always find a way to get along.

  Carey Price

  Player, Way, Hockey Player

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• Hockey is my life, you know. If I do not play hockey, I do not know what I do.

  Alexander Ovechkin

  Play, Knows, Ifs

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• The whole world knows that American TV companies have monopolized Olympic broadcasts and in order to please the fans in their country they do everything they can to keep American viewers interested in what is going on at the hockey rink in Sochi. According to their logic, Americans should always win, no matter what. It was absolutely obvious that [Fyodor] Tyutin's goal yesterday should have been allowed. This was clear to the whole world except the American referee, American TV and those officials with American passports who rule international hockey, grossly neglecting all Olympic principles.

  Ivan Ilyin

  Country, Winning, Order

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• Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

  Tom Clancy

  Ice, Unions, Soviet Union

  Tom Clancy (1989). “The Cardinal of the Kremlin”, p.175, Penguin

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• There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you make a mistake and you give up a run or some points. In these two sports, if you make a mistake, it could cost you your life.

  Don Andrews

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

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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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• For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.

  Barbara Mandrell

  School, Years, Ice

  "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• Be sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees, every other of a quick-growing variety. Be sure that there is plenty of space for lawns and gardens, reserved large areas for football, hockey and parks. Earmark areas for Hindu temples, Mohammedan mosques and Christian churches.

  Jamsetji Tata

  Christian, Football, Garden

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• When you lose the shootout, you feel like you lost the hockey game, ... But we didn't lose the hockey game. We lost a point and they gained a point. That's the reality of it.

  Randy Carlyle

  Reality, Games, Like You

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• My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.

  Bobby Hull

  Sports, Jobs, Years

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• It was a fun ride. I've enjoyed my time on the ice and I've enjoyed more and more people getting interested in the game of hockey.

  Ron Francis

  Fun, Ice, Games

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