HOCKEY QUOTES
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A fast body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.
-- Paul Gallico
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Description of ice hockey:
Hockey's the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.
-- Frank Deford
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Our first priority was staying alive. Our second was stopping the puck.
-- Glenn Hall
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The three important elements of hockey are: forecheck, backcheck and paycheck.
-- Gil Perreault
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Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
-- John Leonard
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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
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Hockey is the original extreme sport.
-- Tom Ward
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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
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Red ice sells hockey tickets.
-- Bob Stewart
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Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all it keeps them off the street.
-- Author Unknown
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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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