Greatest Hockey Quotes:

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- John Wooden

source: "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Inspiration And Motivation

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Motivational, Sports, Congratulations, Inspirational Hockey, Motivational Hockey

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

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

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

How would you like a job where, if you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

- Jacques Plante

topic: Jobs, Mistake, Hockey, Inspirational Hockey, Booing

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

Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental.

- Jim McKenny

topic: Hockey, Games, Half, Scrapbooking, Inspirational Hockey

Orr is the greatest young hockey player that's come along since I've been here.

- Bobby Hull

topic: Hockey, Player, Nhl, Greatest Hockey

If you've only got one day to live, come see the Toronto Maple Leafs. It'll seem like forever.

- Pat LaFontaine

topic: Hockey, Forever, One Day, Maple, Great Hockey

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.

- Doug Larson

topic: Hockey, Ice, Form, Inspirational Hockey, Motivational Hockey

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

- Rodney Dangerfield

topic: Sports, Fighting, Hockey, Inspirational Hockey, Motivational Hockey

Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

- Stephen Leacock

topic: Hockey, Winter, Land, Inspirational Hockey, Motivational Hockey

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

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Motivational, Sports, Dog, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational 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

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

- Gordie Howe

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Inspirational Hockey, Sports Competition

By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series.

- Steve Rushin

topic: Hockey, Nhl, Games, 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

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

topic: Hockey, Style, Cartoon, Accordions, Inspirational Hockey

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

- Jeremy Roenick

topic: Nice, Cocky, Mean, Funny Hockey, Great Hockey

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

- Frank Deford

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

topic: Fighting, Hockey, Two, White Guys, Great Hockey

Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all, it keeps them off the street.

- Gus Kyle

topic: Kids, Hockey, Energetic, 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

Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.

- Chico Resch

topic: Jobs, Hockey, Naps, Goalies, Great Hockey

The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.

- Harry Sinden

topic: Hockey, Singing, Way, Great Hockey, Gretzky

Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself.

- Paul Coffey

topic: Hockey, Pride, Games, Inspirational Hockey, Motivational Hockey

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

- Paul Gallico

topic: Hockey, Men, Knives, Motivational Hockey, Playing Hockey

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

- Scotty Bowman

topic: Sports, Winning, Games, Adaptability, Funny Sports