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 Our Game.
Canadian fans sign
Sign held by Canadian fans at 2010 Winter
Olympics in Vancouver, as Canada beat United States 2-3 to
win record 14th gold medal.
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
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