Hockey Quotes - Page 29

• You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Teamwork, Nhl, Goal

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• Goaltending is to hockey like putting is to golf. It really has no relationship to the rest of the game.

  Harry Sinden

  Golf, Games, Goaltending

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• An avowed homosexual, that would never be accepted in hockey - never! Because it's a milieu where everyone is often naked.

  Pat Burns

  Naked, Accepted, Homosexual

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• As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where its packed every night, theres nothing like it.

  Carl Hagelin

  Team, Garden, Player

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• When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being shown to have finagled their data, as in that ludicrous "hockey stick" graph, pretending to prove that the world had suddenly become much hotter than at any time in 1,000 years. Any theory needing to rely so consistently on fudging the evidence, I concluded, must be looked on not as science at all, but as simply a rather alarming case study in the aberrations of group psychology.

  Christopher Booker

  Years, Data, Psychology

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• The three important elements in hockey are: the forecheck, the backcheck and the paycheck.

  Gilbert Perreault

  Important, Three, Elements

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• Cournoyer has it on that wing. Here's a shot - Henderson made a wild stab for it and fell. Here's another shot! Right in front - THEY SCORE!!! Henderson has scored for Canada!

  Foster Hewitt

  Wings, Canada, Score

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• We were really sick of silver.

  Caroline Ouellette

  Sick, Silver

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• I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Team, Avid, Years

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Ice, Two, Ballet

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• Tomorrow, America's most famous hockey mom, Sarah Palin, will drop the ceremonial first puck at the Philadelphia Flyers game. Right afterwards, she'll get out on the ice and skate around reporters' questions, so it should be interesting.

  Jay Leno

  Mom, Ice, Games

  "Comics keep on poking political fun". The Associated Press, www.today.com. October 13, 2008.

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• I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.

  Rachel McAdams

  Sports, Art, Dad

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• ... I just want to remind the owners and the players: you guys make money because you have a whole bunch of fans out there who are working really hard. They buy tickets. They're watching on TV. Ya'll should be able to figure this out. Get this done.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Player

  "NHL lockout: will there even be a season?" by Colin Horgan, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2012.

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• There's no reason why a player is done at 33, 34. They train better, they eat better, they drink better. This isn't the old days when everybody sat around and drank beer.

  Bobby Clarke

  Beer, Player, Nhl

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• On his refusal to deal with Keith Primeau: We refuse to pay a prima donna, a petulant, pouting player who had 30 goals last year the same money as Toronto is paying Mats Sundin or Pittsburgh is paying Jaromir Jagr.

  Peter Karmanos, Jr.

  Player, Years, Goal

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• On Sergei Fedorov's breaking three sticks on Dallas players: I don't know if Anna (Kournikova) told him to get tougher or what.

  Mike Modano

  Player, Dallas, Three

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• To a reporter after Ray was pounded by Edmonton's Georges Laraque: What are you, the fight doctor now or something? You've never been in a fight in your life, so what are you talking about?

  Rob Ray

  Fighting, Doctors, Talking

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• In Chicago, having crashed his motorcycle into a car. According to police reports, his blood-alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit and he told officers: Just charge me with the usual.

  Bob Probert

  Blood, Car, Alcohol

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• On rookie Alex Selivanov, Yes the guy can score you 40 goals. Yes I love it. What I don't want is him causing 60.

  Terry Crisp

  Goal, Guy, Alex

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• I don't train to look good in the mirror. I train to make improvements in my game.

  Duncan Keith

  Mirrors, Nhl, Games

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• The NHL's opinion of itself is so high.... Let them get drunk on their greatness. We'll see how many Euros look our way.

  Alexander Medvedev

  Greatness, Nhl, Drunk

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• I focus on the dumbness of Hagelin... He played a hell of a game but that's all washed off from dumbness.

  John Tortorella

  Nhl, Games, Focus

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• No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example.

  Brian Oldfield

  Sports, Men, Example

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• Some guys score and some guys don't. We got a lot that don't.

  Mike Babcock

  Nhl, Guy, Score

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• I've played hockey most my life and I've never been badly injured...Three weeks into curling I've got bone chips in both my elbows. I still can't lean on a table. I've even got curling injuries, believe it or not, just from falling on my arse.

  James Allodi

  Sports, Believe, Fall

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