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1 "A fast body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet." - Paul Gallico
2 "A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be." –Wayne Gretzky
3 "All that means is that I'll be 783 years old when I catch Scotty Bowman." - Kevin Constantine
4 "Aw, don't worry about that Doc. If it happens I could always come back as a forward." - Harold Snepsts
5 "Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking your potential." - Liane Carlos
6 "Either you give it right back or the next thing you know everyone and his brother will be trying you on for size." - Doug Harvey
7 "Goaltending is a normal job, sure. How would you like it in your job if every time you made a small mistake, a red light went on over your desk and 15,000 people stood up and yelled at you." - Jacques Plante
8 "Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game." - Chico Resch
9 "I guess they respect my shot because they were all ready at the blue line." - Patrick Way
10 "I know my players don't like my practises, but that's OK because I don't like their games." - Harry Neale.
11 "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been." - Wayne Gretzky
12 "I think he knows all my tricks. Or the fact I don't have any tricks - Brendan Shanahan on trying to score against Curtis Joseph. I'm hoping for a bench clearing brawl during the warm up so I can go out and grab his stick." - Ron Tugnutt
13 "I was happy to have an attraction in our building that we didn't have to pay for." - Harold Ballard
14 "Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept." - Doug Larson "Hockey's the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight." - Frank Deford
15 "I'd be lying to you if I said guys weren't afraid of him. I'm afraid of him, afraid of him running in to me." - Paul Laus
16 "If you've only got one day to live, come see the Toronto Maple Leafs. It'll seem like forever. " - Pat
17 "It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking." - Chris Chelios
18 "It would have been worse if we hadn't blocked the kick after Toronto's second touchdown." - Alex Delvecchio
19 "It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice." - Eric Lindros
20 "It's too easy when you're not winning to look for excuses and point at others for reasons. "You ca say "Oh well, it's this guys fault or they don't do this well" or you can say "I've got to play better and contribute more". You've got to find another gear and come up with big games." - Sean Burke
21 "Last season we couldn't win at home and we were losing on the road. My failure was that I couldn't think of any place else to play." - Harry Neale
22 "My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars."- Bobby Hull
23 "Our first priority was staying alive. Our second was stopping the puck." - Glenn Hall
24 "Our system of forechecking is to shoot the puck and leave it there." - Harry Neale
25 "People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles." - Wayne Gretzky
26 "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." – Vidal Sassoon
27 "The three important elements of hockey are: forecheck, backcheck and paycheck." - Gil Perreault
28 "The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital." - Joe Paterno
29 "To his US Olympic team - Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow." - John Mariucci
30 "Until we get an apology we,re not going to win a game. We vow not to win until we get an apology from Bettman." - Dixon Ward
31 "We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor." - Bobby Clarke
32 "What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems." - Duke Snider "The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill and spirit, but the greatest of these is spirit." - Ken Doherty
33 "When I look at the net I don't see a goalie." - Pavel Bure
34 "When I look at the net I see 2 or 3 goalies." - Radek Dvorak.
35 "Winners never quit, and quitters never win." - Unknown
36 "Yes, and I also like jumping out of tall buildings." - John Vanbiesbrouck
37 "You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free." - Denis from SlapShot
38 "You miss 100% of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky
39 "Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon." - Gene Hart
40 "Call them pros, call them mercenaries -- but in fact they are just grown-up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or flooded corner lot that hockey is the greatest thrill of all. - Lester Patrick
41 "Get used to this phrase: how could both referees have missed that?" - Mike Brophy
42 "Goaltenders are 3 sandwiches shy of a picnic. From the moment primitive man lurched erect, he survived on the principle that when something hard and potentially lethal comes toward you at great velocity, get the hell out of it's path." - Jim Taylor
43 "Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental." - Jim Mckenny
44 "He brings something special. I don't know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn't understand his answer." - Wayne Gretzky
45 "He had better get married soon, because he's getting uglier every day!" - Mark Recchi "They were checking us so closely, I could tell what brand of deodorant they were using." - Gary Dornhoefer
46 "Hockey is a man's game. The team with the most real men wins." - Brian Burke
47 "Hockey is like a disease, you can't really shake it." - Goaltender Ken Wregget
48 "Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud." - Jimmy Cannon
49 "I don't like hockey. I'm just good at it." - Brett Hull
50 "I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you" - Wayne Gretzky
51 "I grabbed it and squeezed it back into place. It gave a little crunch and popped right in." - Jay Wells
52 "I had all my own teeth and I wanted to keep it that way." - Tom Glavine
53 "I just made up my mind that I was going to lose my teeth and have my face cut to pieces." - Johnny Bower
54 "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been." - Wayne Gretzky
55 "I wouldn't ever go into a season trying to re-build from scratch. You can't trade good players for high picks because the world ends at the end of each season. Live with the idea that the world is flat and you're coming to the edge" - Neil Smith
56 "I'd drink more." - Bobby Hull
57 "I'd rather fight than score." - Dave "The Hammer" Schultz
58 "If hockey fights were fixed, I'd be in more of them." - Rod Gilbert
59 "If I get run into again, I'm taking someone with me. I lost one knee. I'll take a head if it happens again." - Grant Fuhr
60 "If I play badly I'll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I'll break a guy's leg to win, I don't care. Afterward I say, 'Yeah all right I played badly, but I won the fight so who gives a damn." - Derek Sanderson
61 "If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat." - Herschel Walker
62 "I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie. - Brett Hull
63 "It's going to be good to be on his side for a change. I'll save a lot of energy since I don't have to concentrate on whacking him. I'm pretty excited about that. - Doug Gilmour
64 "I've always felt we weren't physical enough on the back line. Now there's a no-parking sign in front of our net." - Dean Lombardi
65 "I've told you guys before, goalies don't think. - Chris Osgood "Ever since he's been a little boo-aw." - Marc Crawford
66 "Playing goal is like being shot at." - Jacques Plante
67 "Some guys play hockey. Gretzky plays 40mph chess." - Lowell Cohn
68 "Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo." - Gerry Cheevers
69 "That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my xxxx clothes!" - Stu Grimson
70 "The hockey lockout of 1994-1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering... and can now get down to some serious bloodshed!" - Conan O'Brien
71 "The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem." - Harry Sinden
72 "They do a lot of talking, but I'm not sure they actually understand each other." - Darren McCarty
73 "They say you're not a coach in the league till you've been fired. I must be getting pretty good." - Terry Simpson
74 "We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor." - Bobby Clarke
75 "We're right next to Mile High Stadium. I'm no rocket scientist, but...uh...(smile)." - Brian Skrudland
76 "We've made a final offer. We hope Ziggy Palffy will come to his senses. We have NO hope his agent will." - Mike Milbury
77 "You miss 100% of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky
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