Top 44 Puck Quotes

Sometimes the pass is perfect, but you can’t shoot the puck. Sometimes it’s a bad pass and you do a good shot.

Every time I have a chance I’m going to make a pass to one of my players in practice. Every time I have a chance I’m going to clear the puck just to see how far I’m going to be able to shoot it.

I think a lot of times what practice can do for you when guys are playing a lot of minutes, it sometimes takes away a little bit of their sharpness, because they have the puck a lot and all that.

Obviously ,you want to demand the puck; you want to have it as much as you can because you feel like good things can happen when it’s on your stick.

Growing up, I’d never play goalie in street hockey or at shinny. I liked playing out. So the entire time I played goal, I liked handling the puck better than most.

The way we look at manufacturing is this: the U.S.’s strategy should be to skate where the puck is going, not where it is.

We’re always skating to wherever the puck is going.

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

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.

You can be a great skater, you can have really good puck skills, but the ability to problem-solve is, to me, key.

I like to have the puck when I have speed. You know, then I’m dangerous.

I think, for me, I’m a player that wants the puck, and I’m a better player when I have it.

When I set up my first restaurant, I was so inspired by Wolfgang Puck, who is also based in L.A. and is now a good friend of mine, and the way he would engage with his customers and greet them personally.

I go by the rule of Gretzky: you gotta be there before the puck gets there, or you’re going to get beat.

The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that’s missing today.

I would go for the biggest guy on the team, dump the puck in. I would chase after it because I was very fast. If I wanted to get a big hit, I would have to leap into the guy. The guy would be maybe a 6-3 defenseman, 220, I would leap into this guy and plow him over. He would just fall to the ground. That was my thing.

First of all, when I was making the decision, I never thought that Pittsburgh fans would want me back. Every time I played there, they were booing me every time I touched the puck. I didn’t think it would be such a big deal that I didn’t sign with Pittsburgh.

I saw a hockey game where they threw the puck aside and just started fighting. I saw that, and I’m like, ‘So I’m the thug?’

My two earliest memories – earning little buttons on our skates when we learned how to skate from one end of the ice to the other and when I first lifted the puck.

I always love the smell of a bat and a glove, or a hockey puck in the winter time.

I like to play the puck. I like to be creative a little bit around my net, and now it’s been taken away.

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, ‘Hey, you hockey puck!’

We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can’t afford to give teams momentum.

Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.

I’d love to play Puck in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’

The only thing I liked on HSN was Wolfgang Puck selling cookware. He was funny and engaging. He gave you recipes. Even if you didn’t want to buy anything, you could watch Wolfgang for an hour.

For me, when I came in, I was always worried about making the other guys happy and giving them the puck and almost giving them a little too much respect. It can take away from your game a little bit.

The only time I’m relaxing is when I have the puck and controlling the puck. If I don’t have it, I’m getting anxious, and I want to have it.

When you play hockey, you don’t have any fear. As soon as you step on the ice everything goes away and you’re focusing on the puck and focusing on the play.

There were many times that I took such a big hit that I was dazed; I’m not going to lie. I’d see black, but I’m still looking for the puck. Where’s the play going? I’m going to keep going. Same thing in figure skating. If I take a hard fall, I’m going to get up, and I’m going to do the next jump.

I myself feel that I’m a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.

The players don’t play the position game as much as we used to play. A lot of young guys go up and down, shoot the puck, go for the rebounds. You’re getting tired quicker because the body has to react where the puck is going to go. You cannot read it, because you don’t have the puck on your stick.

I’m not really anything like Puck – I’m worse!

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.

When I’m able to see the ice ahead of time when I get the puck, I’m able to make some pretty good plays.

Sometimes when you start playing games you don’t get as many practices and you don’t get as many touches. People think you have the puck the whole time during a game – you really don’t.

For me, I just got to focus on my job. I just got to find ways to stop the puck and keep our guys in it until we bury the puck.

Tremendous respect to hockey players. It’s not easy every day, going out and getting hit, especially the goalies with all that padding on, that small puck, trying to track it – hand-eye co-ordination is a must. They’re some amazing athletes.

Our four defensemen all had flaws: one couldn’t skate backwards, one couldn’t turn to his left, one couldn’t turn to his right, and the fourth couldn’t pass the puck accurately to our blue line. Somebody had to clear the loose pucks, so I started doing it myself.

I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it’s not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.

I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.

It’s just part of me, playing the puck.

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’ I played Puck. That’s when I said, ‘I want to be an actor.’

I am getting old, but it works in this job. I’m so slow now that I can’t get out of the way of the puck.