Hockey Player Quotes:

I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.

- Christopher Heyerdahl

topic: Hockey, Player, Hockey Player

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

- Gordie Howe

topic: Sports, Hockey, Player, Profanity, Funniest Sports

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Sports, Athlete, Hockey, Inspirational Hockey, Sports Competition

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, Thought Of The Day, Self Determination

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

- Mario Lemieux

topic: Hockey, Player, Long, Hockey Player

A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.

- Jimmy Cannon

topic: Hockey, Player, Puck, Inspirational Hockey, Motivational Hockey

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

- Eric Lindros

topic: Hockey, Practice, Inspirational Hockey, Motivational Hockey, Hockey Player

You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone.

- Herb Brooks

topic: Hockey, Winning, Talent, Hockey Player, Best Hockey

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

- Wayne Gretzky

source: Wayne Gretzky (2000). “99 My Life in Pictures”, Mint Pub

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Inspirational Hockey, Sports In General

Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.

- Bob Plager

topic: Hockey, Player, Numbers, Hockey Player, Funny Hockey

We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.

- Brad Park

topic: Jobs, Hockey, Nhl, Inspirational Hockey, Motivational Hockey

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

- Bobby Clarke

topic: Hockey, Puck, Ill, Inspirational Hockey, Motivational Hockey

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

topic: Daughter, Kids, Hockey, Hockey Player, Funny Hockey

Or as hockey player Sergei Fedorov knows it, 'The day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.'

- Craig Kilborn

topic: Sleep, Hockey, Player, Hockey Player

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

topic: New York, Hockey, Player, Hockey Player

I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was.

- Carol Alt

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hockey, Player, Nhl, Last Place, Hockey Player

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

- Mario Lemieux

topic: Growing Up, Hockey, Player, Montreal, Hockey Player

If I can be half the hockey player that Bobby Orr was, I'll be happy.

- Ray Bourque

topic: Hockey, Player, Half, Hockey Player

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

- Junior Seau

topic: Athlete, Hockey, Player, Hockey Player, Professional Athlete

I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling.

- Sidney Crosby

topic: Dream, Country, Hockey, Hockey Player, Playing Hockey

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

- Michael J. Fox

topic: Growing Up, Ambition, Hockey, Hockey Player

I know my players don't like my practices, but that's OK because I don't like their games.

- Harry Neale

source: "Q&A: New Coyotes Coach Rick Tocchet on a Young Franchise and Lessons From Pittsburgh" by Alex Prewitt, sports.yahoo.com. September 7, 2017.

topic: Hockey, Player, Practice, Hockey Player

You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

- Herb Brooks

topic: Athlete, Player, Were Meant To Be, Inspirational Athlete, Olympic Games

Playing goal is like being shot at.

- Jacques Plante

topic: Hockey, Goal, Shots, Motivational Hockey, Hockey Player

One of the key qualities that you need to be a great hockey player is fantastic anticipation and feel for the game - if you know where the puck is going before it is hit, that is half the battle.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Hockey, Player, Games, Hockey Player, Great Hockey

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

- Pierre Trudeau

topic: Country, Baseball, Rain, Hockey Player, Canada Being Great

If I weren't acting, I think I'd want to be a professional hockey player.

- Sterling Beaumon

topic: Hockey, Player, Thinking, Hockey Player

After I started to understand the spiritual dimension of life, I understood the responsibilities you have as a husband, a father, a friend and a hockey player.

- Paul Henderson

topic: Spiritual, Husband, Father, Spiritual Dimensions, Hockey Player

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.

- Gordie Howe

topic: Hockey, Player, Want, Hockey Player

I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'

- Denis Leary

topic: Basketball, School, Hockey, Hockey Player, Basketball Court

The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.

- Saku Koivu

topic: Hockey, Unique, Player, Montreal, Hockey Player

I find that I've tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the same time, I've also made it a point to increase or grow in some other area of my life. If I were just playing hockey, I would probably be done with the sport.

- Angela Ruggiero

topic: Sports, Hockey, Player, Hockey Player, Playing Hockey

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

- Angela Ruggiero

topic: Hockey, Player, Thinking, Hockey Player

Representing Canada as a hockey player is always a tremendous honor, which also comes with a lot of responsibility. Being able to compete and win a gold medal on our home soil made it a once in a lifetime experience. Capping off the best ever performance by not only the Canadian athletes, but also Vancouver and all Canadians, made for an amazing Olympic experience.

- Scott Niedermayer

topic: Home, Athlete, Responsibility, Once In A Lifetime Experiences, Representing

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

- Jamie Farr

topic: Hockey, Player, Wonderful, Hockey Player, Great Hockey

Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry.

- Brett Hull

topic: Hockey, Thinking, Player, Hockey Player

Leon, no offense, but you don't exactly look like a hockey player." "I told 'em I was a goalie. That's where they put the guy who can't skate, right? Just like in baseball when they put the worst player at catcher.

- Steve Hamilton

source: Steve Hamilton (2007). “Winter of the Wolf Moon: An Alex McKnight Mystery”, p.119, Macmillan

topic: Baseball, Hockey, Player, Leon, Hockey Player

I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.

- Ted Lindsay

topic: Stupid, Hockey, Player, Hockey Player, Good Hockey

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

- Kristi Yamaguchi

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Hockey, Player, Perception, Hockey Player, Skater

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

topic: Girl, Hockey, Boys, Boy And Girl, Hockey Player

Canadian hockey players always find a way to get along.

- Carey Price

topic: Hockey, Player, Way, Hockey Player

Before I was 14, I wanted to be a singer, an actor, or a hockey player. By 15, I knew I was going to be a singer.

- Matisyahu

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Hockey Player

My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.

- Gabe Polsky

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Hockey, Player, Ukraine, Soviet, Hockey Player

In the U.S., coaches could be the father next door. They had no formal training. They're like old hockey players. They don't go to school and study.

- Gabe Polsky

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Father, School, Hockey, Hockey Player

I guess the prime example is in North America there's a thing where if there's no opportunity to move forward with the puck, then a [hockey] player is told to dump the puck into the other zone. Just give up the puck and dump it in. Give it to the other team. And to the Soviet mentality in coaching, it just doesn't make any sense. If you're a skilled player, why are you going to give the puck away to the other team? Just give it away, right?

- Gabe Polsky

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Giving Up, Team, Moving, Hockey Player

I always wanted to play professional hockey. Every hockey player's dream, no matter at what level or what age, is to play professionally. At first you don't know what it's all about, but you have that dream and you always work hard toward it. The older you get, the more you start dedicating yourself to the game.

- Ed Belfour

topic: Dream, Hard Work, Hockey, Hockey Player

America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's philosophical objection to the Canadian health system, it is, broadly, fair: Unless you're a cabinet minister or a big time hockey player, you'll enjoy the same equality of crappiness and universal lack of access that everybody else does. But, even before it's up-and-running, Pelosi-Reid-Obamacare is an impenetrable thicket of contradictory boondoggles, shameless payoffs and arbitrary shakedowns.

- Mark Steyn

topic: Running, Philosophical, Hockey, Euro, Hockey Player

I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.

- Barry Blitt

topic: Hockey, Player, Thinking, Hockey Player

We've [me and brother] been playing hockey for a long time, since we were little kids. I started playing hockey at two and a half. Obviously, playing hockey we want to be known as good hockey players and hard working guys that earn everything they get.

- P. K. Subban

source: Source: www.complex.com

topic: Hockey Player, Playing Hockey, Good Hockey

I was a hockey player, growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates. As an actor, I've been all over the map, but since I've moved to Hollywood, people tend to cast me in these more imposing characters, which is actually really fun for me.

- Kevin Durand

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Growing Up, Fun, Character, Hockey Player, Big Guys