Hockey Coach Quotes:

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

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Determination, Best Coaches, Great Sports

When we've got the puck, they can't score.

- Paul Coffey

topic: Hockey, Puck, Score, Funny Hockey, Ice 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 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

We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games.

- Fred Shero

source: "Walking Together Forever: The Broad Street Bullies, Then and Now". Book by Jim Jackson, January 5, 2005.

topic: Pain, Hockey, Games, Overcoming Pain, Best Hockey

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

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

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

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

- John Wooden

source: John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

topic: Inspirational, Success, Integrity, Good Character, Best Coaches

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

- Bobby Clarke

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

It's not who wins the fight that's important, it's being willing to fight. If you get challenged and renege, everyone wants to take a shot at you.

- Barclay Plager

topic: Fighting, Hockey, Winning, Funny Hockey, Ice Hockey

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

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

- Doug Larson

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

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

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

- Jim McKenny

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

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

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

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

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

Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor.

- Fred Shero

source: "Hockey Shorts" by Glenn Liebman, September 1, 1996.

topic: Hockey, Puck, Ill, Hockey Coach, Hockey Fan

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

The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward.

- Terry Crisp

topic: Hockey, Differences, Tape, Custer, Last Stand

People didn't know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.

- Al Michaels

topic: Hockey, Blue, Differences, Funny Hockey, Ice Hockey

This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.

- Steven Tyler

topic: Party, Hockey, Nhl, Funny Hockey, Ice Hockey

I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire.

- Bobby Hull

topic: Hockey, Millionaire, Divorced, Playing Hockey, Funny Hockey

That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my (expletive) clothes.

- Stu Grimson

topic: Hockey, Clothes, Names, Funny Hockey, Expletives

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

I was three-quarters down the list of guys I would be facing in my first game when I realized I was looking at our own roster.

- Glenn Healy

topic: Hockey, Games, Guy, Rosters, Funny Hockey

I slept like a baby. Every two hours, I woke up and cried.

- Tom McVie

topic: Baby, Hockey, Two, Hockey Coach

I used to coach a lot of hockey. I'd love to be a hockey coach, a bit more of a dramatic role and not comedic. I would go back to my hockey roots, that would be fun.

- Gerry Dee

source: Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

topic: Fun, Hockey, Roots, Hockey Coach