Hockey Quotes - Page 30

• When someone like Brian Oldfield can beat me, I will retire.

  Randy Matson

  Sports, Beats, Brian

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• There's an old saying that when it gets tough the tough get going. You have to work your way through these things.

  Ed Belfour

  Way, Tough, Old Saying

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• Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.

  Brett Hull

  Inspirational, Motivational, Winning

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• We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our industry for their livelihoods.

  Gary Bettman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Regret

  "Frozen Out: A season without Ice Hockey". "The Sports Factor" with Mick O'Regan, www.abc.net.au. April 22, 2005.

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• I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching.

  Patrick Roy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The goalie is like the guy on the minefield. He discovers the mines and destroys them. If you make a mistake, somebody gets blown up.

  Arturs Irbe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mistake

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• It was probably the biggest accomplishment of my life.

  Jerome Bettis

  Sports, Accomplishment

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• If you want something as bad as you want to breathe, then you can do it.

  Tyler Seguin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Nhl

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• Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be.

  Mario Lemieux

  Nhl, Games, Tough

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• Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.

  Don Kardong

  Sports, Food, Inspiration

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• The quintessential bad - luck position. Pucks can go off bodies, skates, bounce into the net.

  Mike Liut

  Luck, Puck, Body

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• The only job worse is a javelin catcher at a track - and - field meet.

  Gump Worsley

  Funny, Jobs, Nhl

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• I'd like to hear them be a bit more creative, though. I've heard 'you're a sieve, you stink' my whole life and you can tell it's obviously affected me.

  Ryan Miller

  Creative, Stink, Whole Life

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• In biblical times, I stoned people to death. Now they are repaying me by hurling pucks at my head.

  Gilles Gratton

  Biblical, People, Goalies

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• Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.

  Amarillo Slim

  Sports, Looks, Tables

  "Amarillo Slim obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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• A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.

  Henry Hudson

  Ice, Sea, Danger

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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, Player, Years

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• I'll always be Number 1 to myself.

  Moses Malone

  Basketball, Sports, Numbers

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• It's the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose.

  Harry Sinden

  Success, Sports, Volleyball

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• A complacent player is a lazy player, and a lazy player is a loser.

  Darryl Sutter

  Player, Nhl, Lazy

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• He was yelling pretty urgently. There's different pitches of yell and he was screaming.

  Jarome Iginla

  Yelling, Different

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• First of all, it's a curse. Voodoo. As soon as a guy gets put on the cover of The Hockey News, it's like Sports Illustrated. He goes right into the tank.

  Dean Lombardi

  Sports, Guy, Tanks

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• I ain't got time to bleed.

  Jesse Ventura

  Badass

  Jesse Ventura, Julie Mooney (2001). “Do I Stand Alone?: Going to the Mat Against Political Pawns and Media Jackals”, Simon and Schuster

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• Any sport that comes from Scotland is good!

  Leslie Nielsen

  Sports, Scotland

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• Effort is a measure of a Man.

  William James

  Sports, Men, Effort

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