Hockey Quotes - Page 22

• Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

  Roger Clemens

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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• Boxing is a more sophisticated form of hockey.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

  "George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 1986.

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• What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.

  Duke Snider

  Sports, Baseball, Player

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• The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.

  Andre Dawson

  Baseball, Feelings, Puck

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• Roses are red, violets are blue, they got ten, we only got two.

  Gerry Cheevers

  Blue, Two, Rose

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• I can't hear what Jeremy says because my ears are blocked with my two Stanley Cup Rings.

  Patrick Roy

  Two, Goalies, Ears

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• It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• I don't fear stopping a 100 mph slap shot. I fear not stopping it!

  Roberto Luongo

  Mph, Stopping, Goalies

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• Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.

  Ed Belfour

  Sports, Team, Winning

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• The guillotine has to fall somewhere when the team under-produces, and more times than not it's fallen on me.

  Dustin Penner

  Team, Fall, Nhl

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• I wish that we could tumble them in the dryer for 30 minutes and get them to shrink, but that won't happen.

  Bob Hartley

  Wish, Minutes, Happens

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• Luc Robitaille is a great kid and good player, but ask anybody on the street and they'd probably think Luc Robitaille is a type of salad dressing.

  Bruce McNall

  Kids, Thinking, Player

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• I don't think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Thinking, Nhl, Games

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• When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL. Now it's kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can't be a good coach because I was a great athlete.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Athlete, Nhl, Flip

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• Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying.

  Brendan Morrison

  Nhl, Onions, Cry

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• I was young and stupid then. Now I'm not young anymore.

  Jyrki Lumme

  Stupid, Nhl, Young

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• I love to play for Pittsburgh. If they can't afford me, then I'd love to play in L.A. or New York.

  Jaromir Jagr

  New York, Nhl, Play

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• I won't miss him. Maybe the West Edmonton Mall will miss him, but not me.

  Glen Sather

  Nhl, Missing, Edmonton

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

  Ray Bourque

  Player, Nhl, Half

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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, Nhl, Goalies

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• It's incredible, they're [the medals] beautiful and as soon as they put them around your neck, it's pretty amazing. Shannon played outstandingly well. She was so calm, composed and she was just moving so well.

  Jennifer Botterill

  Beautiful, Moving, Necks

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• It's a big game tomorrow, obviously, quarter finals. I think that whenever you play the Russians you always get up for it, and tomorrow is going to be even that much bigger, the quarter finals.

  Michael Richards

  Thinking, Games, Play

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  You know, I've held women and babies and jewels and money, but nothing will ever feel as good as holding that Cup.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Baby, Jewels, Nhl

  Wayne Gretzky, Reilly, Rick (1990). “Gretzky, An Autobiography”, Harper & Collins

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• Guys, I don't want to tell you half-truths, unless they're completely accurate.

  Alain Vigneault

  Nhl, Guy, Half

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• He's the kind of guy who will stab you in the back right to your face.

  Brett Hull

  Nhl, Guy, Faces

  "The kind of Brett Hull interview we all want to read". hockeyadventure.com. November 27, 2007.

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