Top 370 Hockey Quotes

I love hockey. Hockey is my go-to sport. It’s my jam.

Dedicating your life to something, dedicating time to something, ending up achieving it and maybe doing better than that. Me personally, that would be a Stanley Cup. That’s something I’ve dreamed of my whole life. I think that’s why every hockey player at this level plays.

My wife likes the hockey smell because it’s the smell of a warrior.

The shoot-and-chase approach had become big in hockey. Teams would come up to the blue line and shoot the puck around our boards deep in our zone, then swarm in after it forechecking, trying to regain possession.

Hockey is not an individual game. It is rather a team game.

You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.

I guess I’d be nervous to skate and do hockey. Growing up in Hawaii there’s not a lot of ice.

As much as I enjoy TV, I’ve always loved radio. And I love doing the NFL games, the Monday night games, on radio. Because you are the game. I really enjoyed calling basketball and hockey on the radio, but the presentation is more specific – you’re talking all the time.

I’ve always been active: netball, hockey, rounders, athletics.

I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself.

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

Maybe at the end of my figure skating career, I’ll be able to have just the one game I always dreamed of having. I’ve still got the skill, I think. I’d have to work on my stick-handling skills, but the speed and my hockey smarts are still there.

I am very passionate about Indian hockey.

I have always been interested in finding new ways to play and have looked at handball keepers and ice hockey goal-minders. It helps me.

There was a time there in the mid ’80s to the ’90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.

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.

You have to realize I grew up in a real hockey town. And there I was wearing bow ties and watching the gayest movies on the face of Earth, like ‘Clueless.’

Canada’s known as a hockey country and now we’ve proven that we can also play football as well.

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.

I’m not a freak show. I’m a hockey player.

We have an edge over the Asian countries because we are playing European and Indian style of hockey, but we need to perform consistently.

I get mad at my mom. I really wish she’d put me into hockey. I’m not gifted with height, but look at Martin St-Louis. He’s unbelievable. He’s small, but he’s so fast, so skilful. I think I could have been pretty good.

When you win in Montreal, it’s the best place in the world to play hockey.

Stanley Cup hockey comes around every year, when games start to count in multiples of best-of-seven series, and the players seem to put more attention into every pass, every check, every annoying little trick.

You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.

I played ice hockey obsessively for 14 years of my life.

A soccer star is on the field for two hours. In hockey, your star player is on the ice for 20 minutes.

I think I’m a mama’s boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I’m a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.

I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn’t make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn’t play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.

In Canada, it’s beer, hockey, and then everything else.

The thing about hockey for me is I’m really competitive and I like to have fun.

At first, I felt like I was put into this box because I played hockey. I thought that I was viewed a certain way, and I shouldn’t wear certain clothes. Finally, I stepped aside and said, ‘That’s someone else’s creation of me. I can be feminine and be strong.’

Hockey is a year-round job.

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

Hockey is a difficult and skill-based game.

No matter who the captain is, on the hockey pitch it’s the goalkeeper who is leading the side because we have the best view of the field.

I didn’t know that I’d like it this much, coaching both boys and coming out all the time and seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice.

The only other time I can recall my dad getting upset at me was when I missed a hockey practice. My parents were away, so my buddy and I decided to skip it. I never told my dad about it, but he found out from the coach.

The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

I had a set schedule since I was 15, since I started playing junior hockey. When you don’t have that sometimes you try to find something new and it’s difficult.

Hockey has changed. The game has changed. You just have to be ready for that.

I’ve been watching the growth of Auston Matthews, for instance. If he were playing 20 years ago, we’d be saying he’s Mario Lemieux-like. He’s 6-foot-5. He skates great. He’s got unbelievable hands and a hockey IQ.

I’ve broken my wrist, dislocated toes and shoulders, gotten stitches, you name it. However, the worst was a severely bruised femur. I got body checked into an open gate while playing hockey. The doctor couldn’t believe I didn’t shatter my femur.

I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.

Hockey’s filled with great people, and it’s a great sport, and I encourage a lot of people to play it because of the relationships that you make in hockey.

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

I’m a dad first and foremost, then it goes hockey and then work, in that order.

My hockey is good, but my ice skating is terrible. It’s a bit of a mess to watch!

Whether you’re trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, I’ve always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether it’s as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that.

One of my first heroes was Jim Robson, the hall-of-fame broadcaster with the Canucks and Hockey Night in Canada, and Jim Ross with the WWE and Howard Cosell was a big influence on me.

I was super sporty in high school. I played tennis, field hockey, and lacrosse.

I’ve been acting since I was 8 – I used to play hockey and there was a kids’ theatre down the street from my house and one day I just walked in and signed up for auditions for ‘The Wizard Of Oz.’

I’m proud to be Russian. We have probably the best country in the world. Everything is the best: hockey players, cars, girls.

Where I grew up, hockey was the sport that 90 per cent of black kids at school played.

I would make hockey movies: I would edit together Flyers games and do highlight reels of goals or fights, which I still have to this day.

Hockey suffers from being compared to itself in ways that other sports are not. Every four years, some of us fawn over Olympic hockey, a great event with bigger rinks, minimal goonishness and national pride in addition to the heightened skills of veritable all-star squads.

Thank you for reminding Canada that I’m a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I’m not an avid hockey – let’s face it, true Canadian – fan. I’ve always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I’m not crazy about hockey – but love it!

I played 15 years of hockey, and I got more injured doing two weeks of cheer camp.

I always said put me in front of 40 or 50,000 people and play hockey, I’m comfortable there. Put me in front of 50 people to talk or get in front of, and that’s where I’m probably the least comfortable.

Hockey historians say the handshake dates to English settlers in Canada, who preached an upper-class version of sportsmanship in the 19th century. Soon, tough kids in urban and prairie rinks began imitating imagined dukes and earls of the old country.

The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven’t been skating as a kid it’s impossible to play – and I wasn’t a skater.