Hockey Quotes - Page 8

• It's too easy when you're not winning to look for excuses and point at others for reasons. You ca say 'Oh well, it's this guys fault or they don't do this well', or you can say 'I've got to play better and contribute more'. You've got to find another gear and come up with big games.

  Sean Burke

  Motivational, Winning, Games

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• Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.

  Steve Rushin

  Nhl, Style, Cartoon

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• I tried to talk my daughter out of going with a hockey player but, he's a good kid. He asked me if he could marry Carrie before he asked her. I said: You want to what? I thought he was just going to ask for more ice time.

  Phil Esposito

  Daughter, Kids, Player

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• I don't like hockey. I'm just good at it.

  Brett Hull

  Nhl, Ice Hockey

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• My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.

  Jaromir Jagr

  Nhl, Play, Goal

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• I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Thinking, Years

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• Biologically, I'm 10. Chronologically, I'm 33. In hockey years, I'm 66.

  Mark Messier

  Years

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• The hockey lockout of 1994 - 1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering... and can now get down to some serious bloodshed!

  Conan O'Brien

  Nhl, Serious, Bloodshed

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• Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.

  Frank Deford

  Fighting, Nhl, Two

  Frank Deford (1976). “The Owner”, Viking Adult

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• The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Motivational, Sports, Dog

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• Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person.

  Jeremy Roenick

  Nice, Cocky, Mean

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• It's a great feeling, its something that I've dreamt about since I was little, and it's finally come true. It couldn't be better. Well I think that we stuck to the game plan. We got shots on net, and just used our power.

  Rebecca Johnston

  Thinking, Games, Feelings

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• People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

  Pat Burns

  People, Nasty, Sometimes

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• Sports like baseball, basketball, and hockey develop muscles. That's why Americans have the strongest eyes in the world.

  Robert Orben

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

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• My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.

  Gary Bettman

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Kids

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• Baseball can have its perfect dimensions, its undeniable drama, but hockey, for all its wrongs, still has the potential to deliver a momentary, flashing magic that is found in no other game we play.

  Roy MacGregor

  Baseball, Drama, Games

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• Coaches are like ducks. Calm on top, but paddling underneath. Believe me, there's a lot of leg movement.

  Ken Hitchcock

  Believe, Ducks, Paddling

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I have been practising since I was 4 or 5 years old, but that wasn't really practice. I was just having fun.... I just loved to play hockey.

  Sidney Crosby

  Fun, Years, Nhl

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• What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred.

  Herb Brooks

  Inspirational, Men, Thinking

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• Hockey taught me to challenge myself and be the best I can be on and off the ice.

  P. K. Subban

  Ice, Challenges, Taught

  Source: www.automobilenews.net

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• There are certain things about my game I don't want to change, but I think it's about time that I realized I can't fight every battle. Three hundred minutes in penalties is way too many. Way too many.

  Rick Tocchet

  Fighting, Thinking, Games

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• You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable... they've even taken fighting out of the game, so there's no more of those big huge guys who just fight.

  Brett Hull

  Sports, Taken, Fighting

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• You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.

  Guy Lafleur

  Winning, Play, Cups

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• Most kids start playing hockey at the age of five, I was an earlier bloomer. My parents laced up my first pair of skates and put me on the ice at the young age of 2 ½, basically right after I mastered walking.

  P. K. Subban

  Kids, Ice, Parent

  Source: www.automobilenews.net

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• Whether youre trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, Ive always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether its as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that.

  Sidney Crosby

  Player, Years, Trying

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