A fast body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.
Paul Gallico
Description of ice hockey.

Hockey's the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.
Frank Deford

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

Our first priority was staying alive. Our second was stopping the puck.
Glenn Hall

The three important elements of hockey are: forecheck, backcheck and paycheck.
Gil Perreault

Hockey is a man's game. The team with the most real men wins.
Brian Burke

Hockey is like a disease, you can't really shake it.
Goaltender Ken Wregget

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

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

Canada is hockey.
Mike Weir

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

Every day is a great day for hockey.
Mario Lemeiux

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

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

Hockey is the original extreme sport.
Tom Ward

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

Hockey players have fire in their hearts and ice in their veins.
Author Unknown

I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.
Mark Messier

Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry.
Brett Hull

Red ice sells hockey tickets.
Bob Stewart

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own this shit. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and as soon as they make a heated hockey rink we'll take that shit too.
Chris Rock

Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental.
Jim McKenny

When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.
Joe Sakic

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

My other car is a Zamboni.
Hockey Saying

Ice hockey players can walk on water.
Author Unknown

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

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

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 the NHL playoff series.
Steve Rushin