Hockey Quotes - Page 32

• This was football played at the speed of ice hockey and the ball was in play for only 53 minutes of the 90. The Premiership at its highest level is enthralling, edge-of-the-seat stuff, but sometimes it is too fast and frenetic for its own good.

  Daniel Taylor

  Soccer, Football, Ice

  "Kenyon's talk is cheap but Chelsea's big ideas need more than money" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2006.

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• We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff'.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Football, Art, Memories

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• The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.

  Michael E. Mann

  Icons, Would Be, Sticks

  "Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.

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• A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

  Ted Lindsay

  Attitude, Rumor, Detroit

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• Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

  Martina Hingis

  Baseball, Player, Tennis

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• I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, School, Games

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• I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

  Steven Chu

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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• All my career I've gone to teams on the decline. I went to Quebec when they were losing the Stastny brothers. I went to Edmonton after they lost Gretzky and Messier. I went to Anaheim when it was an expansion team. I came to Montreal after they'd won the Cup and were headed down. I was beginning to think it was me.

  Ron Tugnutt

  Brother, Team, Thinking

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• I coach hockey players—some of them just happen to be girls. When I’m coaching youth hockey, I put the boys and girls together and they can’t tell the difference. They are just playing hockey.

  Natalie Darwitz

  Girl, Boys, Player

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• Usually when you play a team, you want to focus on one line. Pittsburgh is the only team where you have to focus on one player [Mario Lemieux]. When he's coming toward you, all you see is him.

  Patrick Roy

  Team, Player, Focus

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• Play every game as if it's your last one

  Guy Lafleur

  Inspirational, Motivational, Nhl

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• Some guys are more worried about their Vegas trip at the end of the season than playing the games, than playing every minute of the games. Quite frankly, I don't care about your Vegas trip right now.

  Jean-Sebastien Giguere

  Vegas, Games, Guy

  "Top Shelf: Veteran Giguere calls out 'embarrassing' Avs". www.foxnews.com. April 09, 2013.

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• The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.

  Bud Selig

  Sports, Country, Mean

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• Hockey is a tough game. With all the talk and everything that's going on right now, it frightens me a little bit that we are giving our players an excuse not to hit. I just hope that we don't take that out of our game at the pro level.

  Bobby Orr

  Sports, Player, Games

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• In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.

  Parminder Nagra

  Girl, Soccer, Balls

  "A Conversation with Parminder Nagra". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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• Hockey is probably one of the most expensive sports. You have to have a place to play. You have to have the proper equipment. You have to have the transportation to get there.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Sports, Play, Equipment

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. August 10, 2005.

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• I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available.

  Merlin Olsen

  Football, Puck, Towns

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• I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Soccer, Baseball, Winter

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• I think he knows all my tricks. Or the fact I don't have any tricks - Brendan Shanahan on trying to score against Curtis Joseph. I'm hoping for a bench clearing brawl during the warm up so I can go out and grab his stick.

  Ron Tugnutt

  Thinking, Nhl, Trying

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• I was happy to have an attraction in our building that we didn't have to pay for.

  Harold Ballard

  Nhl, Pay, Building

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• It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

  Ann Trason

  Inspirational, Running, Hurt

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• People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• It only hurt once, from beginning to end.

  James Counsilman

  Sports, Hurt, Ends

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• When I was shooting Drive Me Crazy, I wanted to go out with the rest of the cast and stay up late and play air hockey. I just wanted to have fun.

  Melissa Joan Hart

  Fun, Crazy, Air

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• In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are seen, worldwide, as an enormously competitive, enthusiastic people who work as hard as we play and play as hard as we work. When baseball - which has traditionally canceled one day of games for huge national celebrations or disasters - stops play for six days, that has reverberations in the national consciousness.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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