Hockey Quotes - Page 24

• I'm on the third line. I'm a crasher. I know my role. I'm just trying to help. I'm not stupid enough to think I'm great out there.

  Darcy Tucker

  Stupid, Thinking, Nhl

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• Hockey is not a sport - it's a disease.

  Chico Resch

  Sports, Nhl, Disease

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• My brother Dash hit me on the head with five textbooks in a gym bag.

  Tie Domi

  Brother, Nhl, Bags

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• Ah, my sister used to hit me harder.

  Shawn Burr

  Nhl, My Sister, Used

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• I think we're really good about pushing each other in practice and we have high tempo and I feel like we have some of the best players in the world so just competing against one another and getting in there and pushing each other around and getting ready for that physical style of game coming up, we have to play hard and pretend it's a game.

  Cherie Piper

  Player, Thinking, Play Hard

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• It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.

  Brett Hull

  Animal, Nhl, Kingdoms

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• That was awesome. I wasn't expecting it and when I got the call I got nervous for a second. But I was just really excited.

  Charline Labonte

  Nervous, Excited, Expecting

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• It's a good start. Seems like all the lines have chemistry right now. It's tough to tell after one game, but with only one practice all the guys looked like the flowed pretty good out there after the first period.

  Joe Thornton

  Practice, Games, Guy

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• Because he stinks on the power play. He stinks. I don't know why. I wish I could put him on the power play, but every time I put him on, he stinks.

  John Tortorella

  Play, Wish, Stink

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

  Roberto Luongo

  Nhl, Goalies, Lasts

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• I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'

  Corey Haim

  Men, Play, Okay

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• Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.

  Bobby Orr

  Sports, Fun, Memories

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• Hopefully someone on their team addresses it, because, uh, I'm not saying I'm going to do it, but something might happen to him if he continues to be that cocky.

  Mike Richards

  Team, Cocky, Addresses

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• I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

  Matthew Perry

  Law, Canada, Kind

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• Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy.

  Rachel Nichols

  Sexy, Seems

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• We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.

  Steven Pinker

  Fun, Bloodlust, Fans

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• I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

  Keanu Reeves

  Funny, School, Mean

  "Keanu Heads Down Under With 'Constantine'". Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. February 19, 2005.

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• I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.

  Andy Roddick

  Basketball, Sports, School

  "New Again: Andy Roddick". Interview with Elton John, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 12, 2012.

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• I wasn't the athletic kid in my family. Both of my brothers were on athletic scholarships and my dad played semi-pro hockey. My younger brother played pro hockey. I was the music kid. But I always loved sports. I grew up around it.

  Trevor McNevan

  Sports, Brother, Dad

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.

  Andy Rooney

  Eye, Fighting, Player

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• The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven’t been skating as a kid it’s impossible to play - and I wasn’t a skater.

  Liev Schreiber

  Kids, Play, Skills

  "Liev Schreiber On ‘Goon,’ Ice Hockey And Naomi Watts". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

  Scotty Bowman

  Sports, Winning, Nhl

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• It's kind of good to get that evil monkey off my back!

  Stefan Cherneski

  Evil, Monkeys, Kind

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• When Bobby came into the league he was a rushing defenseman, a goal scorer and a point getter. He just opened the game up to more offence and that's the way the game is played now.

  Johnny Bucyk

  Games, Rushing, Goal

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• I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work.

  Bobby Orr

  Finished

  "Bobby Orr: How we're killing hockey". Interview with Ken MacQueen, www.macleans.ca. October 17, 2013.

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