Hockey Fan Quotes:

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

- Brett Hull

topic: Team, Hockey, Play, Hockey Fan

Every day is a great day for hockey.

- Mario Lemieux

topic: Hockey, Nhl, Great Day, Motivational Hockey, Best Hockey

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

- Gordie Howe

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

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

- Jim McKenny

topic: Hockey, Games, Half, Scrapbooking, Inspirational 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

Great moments are born from great opportunities.

- Herb Brooks

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

topic: Sports, Opportunity, Moments, Great Moments, Inspirational Hockey

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 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

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

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

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

Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Real, Hockey, Fighting, Hockey Fan

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

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 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

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

- Doug Larson

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

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

He brings something special. I don't know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn't understand his answer.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Hockey, Special, Answers, Great Hockey, Ice Hockey

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

- Louis Dudek

topic: Country, Book, Hockey, Hockey Fan

I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool.

- Cuba Gooding, Jr.

source: Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. January 17, 2012.

topic: Team, Hockey, Avid, All Black, Hockey Fan

Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.

- Robert Orben

topic: Baseball, Football, Hope, Baseball Fans, Hockey Fan

Its an honor to be chosen to represent the best hockey game in the world,... Hockey fans are looking for the most authentic experience and NHL 2K6 delivers it.

- Brian Boitano

topic: Hockey, Nhl, Games, Best Hockey, Hockey Fan

I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.

- Ryan Reynolds

topic: Hockey, Fans, Canada, Hockey Fan

We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.

- Steven Pinker

topic: Fun, Hockey, Bloodlust, Vicarious, Hockey Fan

I love to play hockey. I'm a huge hockey fan and I love to play as well.

- Sterling Beaumon

topic: Hockey, Play, Fans, Hockey Fan

I always played hockey, I was always a hockey fan, but I was never bitten by the hockey bug... I never looked into playing it professionally.

- Chris Jericho

topic: Hockey, Fans, Bugs, Hockey Fan