Quotes About Hockey

Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them.

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.

I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching.

I saw the rebound and when the puck came to me, I said, oh my God, puck, I must shoot.

I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.

After the hockey stick, Sardara Singh scores with the broom! A great effort by him towards a Swachh Bharat.

My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don't think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.

I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.

Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor.

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 like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.

I watched 'Mighty Ducks.' 'Slapshot' when I was a little older.

I watched Gretzky, I watched Lemieux. Maybe it's the time when you're playing, but for a kid coming into the league, you play the Boston Bruins and you just watched Bobby Orr.

I think for me, personally, I'm a guy who has watched ESPN ever since I've been growing up. You turn it on, and it's one of the first stories - the Blackhawks and hockey, which you don't really see on that station. That's cool to see.

Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.

I think I am the first hockey player in India to have a wax statue of his own. It is a great honour.

When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.

I get to play behind Al MacInnis and learn from him. I get to play with Brett Hull. There were like six or seven Hall of Famers that I would play with during my time in St. Louis. I mean, Wayne Gretzky was traded there my first year.

I have played a handful of rounds of golf with Wayne Gretzky.

Having Wayne in town will be exciting enough.

When you think of Canada, you think of hockey and you think of Wayne Gretzky.

Wayne Gretzky is the greatest hockey player of all-time, I don't think there is any debate about that. If you look at the records he holds, they'll never be broken or touched. He wasn't the biggest, wasn't the fastest, and didn't have the hardest shot, but no one saw the game developing the way he saw the game develop.

My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and I remember the first game I got to see him play against the Jets. The Kings beat the Jets, and I was happy that they did. Gretzky left the game after the first period, and I was upset about that.