Hockey Quotes - Page 31

• There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.

  Charles Barkley

  Sports, Good Friend, Beats

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• In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

  Althea Gibson

  Sports, Fields, Accepted

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• Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong; that hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound gods.

  John F. Kennedy

  Sports, Strong, Keys

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated, Volume 13, Issue 26, pp. 14-17, December 26, 1960.

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• Sometimes, you get the bear. Sometimes, the bear gets you.

  Sam Elliott

  Sports, Bears, Sometimes

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• At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

  Mats Sundin

  Player, Levels, Pressure

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• One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy.

  George Vecsey

  Healthy, Cups, Germs

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• I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

  Clara Hughes

  Ice, Goes On, Worried

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• People think there is something wrong with Mike(Milbury). But there's method in his madness.

  Scott Lachance

  Thinking, People, Madness

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• Screw the Rangers, and screw the Devils; I work for the Islanders now, and I could care less about them!

  Mike Milbury

  Devil, Care, Rangers

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• If you make one mistake, it can result in vasectomy.

  John G. Rowland

  Sports, Mistake, Vasectomy

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• When I left here I left everything here. It's time to move on

  Mark Messier

  Moving, Time To Move On, Left

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• You want it? Work for it.

  Darcy Tucker

  Want

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• I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.

  Bill Bowerman

  Sports, Running, Records

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• I don't like being mediocre. I won't be.

  Mike Milbury

  Being Me, Mediocre

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• Bobby would drive to the net injured, he would drive to the net hurt. He played that way every night. He told Bobby that he was the one who made him famous.

  Derek Sanderson

  Hurt, Night, Way

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• Yes folks, their gold medal looks the same as everybody elses.

  Bob Costas

  Sports, Gold, Looks

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• Overall I can fairly safely say Bobby Orr impressed me more than anybody with his tremendous talents. In Bobby's first N.H.L. game he layed the lumber to Gordie's head. Later Howe retalliated and wanted to let the kid know he wasn't washed up yet.

  Gordie Howe

  Kids, Games, Firsts

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• Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.

  Jean de Gribaldy

  Sports, Football, Sacrifice

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• The Rope a Dope would not have existed without the Big Dope.

  George Foreman

  Sports, Dope, Rope

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• I grew up on a farm and I always learned when you work you go forward, you don't stop and say, well, I'll take a break. You always go forward and get the job done.

  Rulon Gardner

  Sports, Jobs, Done

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• Obviously, we were fortunate to win the hockey game, and we'll take it, because there have been some games that we haven't been fortunate enough in. I don't think we played exceptionally well from any standpoint, other than our first period. And our goaltender really stole the game for us. In all reality, you have to give him credit for the win. He stole the points.

  Randy Carlyle

  Thinking, Winning, Reality

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• I could not hear what they say about me, my 2 Stanley Cup rings were stuffed in my ears.

  Patrick Roy

  Ears, Cups, Stanley Cup

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• I don't think you can really expect to win a hockey game giving up three power-play goals. In reality, you cant give up those and that's the difference in the hockey game.

  Randy Carlyle

  Giving Up, Winning, Reality

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• Basically, I don't like anybody.

  Brantt Myhres

  Nhl

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• Rocket had that mean look on, every game we played. He was 100 percent hockey. He could hate with the best of them.

  Gordie Howe

  Hate, Mean, Nhl

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