Hockey Quotes

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

Good, Great, Player

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
Tiger Woods

Men, Basketball, Black

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

Fight, Game, Night

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

English, Players, Profanity

I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.
Andy Rooney

Time, Game, Hard

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
Wayne Gretzky

Successful, Same, Sense

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard

Game, Football, Basketball

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

Care, Put, Another

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.
Sarah Palin

Love, Mom, Between

The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.
Bobby Orr

Life, Smile, Kids

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
Bobby Orr

God, Sports, School

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.
Wayne Gretzky

Half, Physical, Percent

Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.
Wayne Gretzky

Life, Love, Game

Hockey is the original extreme sport.
Tom Ward

Original, Extreme

Every day is a great day for hockey.
Mario Lemeiux

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.
Michael J. Fox

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

Acting, Wanted, Ambition

I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
Wayne Gretzky

Everything, Worked, Speed

I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.
Wayne Gretzky

Age, Game, Baseball

And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.
Wayne Gretzky

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
Keanu Reeves

Religion, School, Mean

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

Him, Put, Player

I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.'
Henry Louis Gates

Black, Give, Used

I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.
Emma Watson

Time, Play, Dance

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.
Emma Watson

Long, Game, Lose

I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.
Rachel McAdams

Art, Dad, Sports

I don't know where the loyalty lies in baseball. You really don't have to protect each other much, unless there's like a bench-clearing brawl. In hockey, it's important that they look out for each other.
Seann William Scott

Loyalty, Important, Baseball

That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would play slow motion tackle football. We would play hockey, but we wouldn't skate. We just made things up. I loved doing that.
Mike Krzyzewski

Football, Made, Play

It's odd, that's why I don't like telling people I played field hockey. It's real big in Australia for guys. But I say I played in America, and everybody goes, 'Oh, you girl!'
Heath Ledger

Girl, Real, America

I'm awful at hockey.
Seann William Scott

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