A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky
A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.
Ted Lindsay
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
Gordie Howe
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard
Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.
Steve Nash
But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
Daley Thompson
But inside of me I knew that the Olympics were still there. I was still young enough. I knew that once I transitioned out of hockey, it would be really hard to go back.
Angela Ruggiero
But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.
Leigh Steinberg
By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
Ted Lindsay
Canada is hockey.
Mike Weir
Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.
Brett Hull
Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
Jamie Farr
Every day is a great day for hockey.
Mario Lemeiux
Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.
Kristi Yamaguchi
For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.
Mario Lemeiux
For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.
Barbara Mandrell
Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.
Bill Goldberg
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
Hockey has given me everything, most importantly it brought me to Swift Current, where I met my wife Deb.
Joe Sakic
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
Tiger Woods
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