Motivational Hockey Quotes:

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

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

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

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

- Jaromir Jagr

topic: Hockey, Nhl, Play, Motivational Hockey, Best Hockey

Playing goal is like being shot at.

- Jacques Plante

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

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

- Lou Brock

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Hockey

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

- Bobby Clarke

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

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

- Joe Paterno

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Football, Baseball Games

Every day is a great day for hockey.

- Mario Lemieux

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

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

- Gordie Howe

topic: Pain, Hockey, Play, 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

Great moments are born from great opportunities.

- Herb Brooks

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

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

The name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back.

- Herb Brooks

topic: Names, Important, Hell, Motivational Hockey, Sports Movie

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

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

- Jim McKenny

topic: Hockey, Games, Half, Scrapbooking, 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

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

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

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

- Satchel Paige

topic: Giving Up, Athlete, Grieving, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Athlete

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

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

- Gordie Howe

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

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 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

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

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

I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Sports, Baby, Hockey, Crossings, 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

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