Hockey Quotations | Page 9

We're scared of losing. That's why we win. We know what it's like to lose and we hate it. We enjoy being champions too much.

The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: At some point, a pit bull does stop whining.

Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room mansion with the live shark tank in the living room. If pro sports paid minimum wage, Shaquille O'Neal would be a bouncer at Scores, and Anna Kournikova would be a mail-order bride from Minsk.

Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.

I wish that we could tumble them in the dryer for 30 minutes and get them to shrink, but that won't happen.

A hockey team is like a puzzle. Every piece is vital.

Personally I don't believe in standing on the ice, or jamming the blueline, waiting. I have always told my players that hockey has to be played on your toes.

Its a great day for hockey

We talk about mental toughness all the time. That's the biggest thing good teams have, that they can overcome adversity.

Just use the same quotes. It's the same story.

As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where its packed every night, theres nothing like it.

I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.

We're still feeling this thing out. The thing I love about hockey is it's a man's game played like men, and you go out there and battle and play the game hard, and that's the way it should be. As long as they let us engage in the battles at the net, in the corners and the straight-up stuff -- the stuff around the waist, they're gonna call. We're all figuring this out right now, and hopefully it'll get better as things go along.

Women are playing [hockey] because they love it, not because they’re trying to be a woman in a man’s game.

The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. ... That's a pretty scary thought.

People didn't know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.

You can't control the opposition, but you can control how you play, your energy level, your intensity on the ice. That's what we're going to do.

Guys, I don't want to tell you half-truths, unless they're completely accurate.

We brought him [Raffi Torres] in because he was an emotional, physical player. He's had nothing but a great attitude and a great work ethic with us all year long. He comes to play, prepares himself real well. We need him to play the way he does. You know, he's a little bit sometimes outside the box, but you've got to let him be who he is.

We're trying to work on Sami to get through that and shoot the puck. MacInnis shot the puck all the time. If there was a fool who wanted to stand in front and break an ankle, tough luck.

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.

When no one else signs me.

So here I am running at guys who aren't taller than 5-foot-8, and I'm the one who tears up his knee.

We want to show people that we're the team that everyone should be gunning for (in the Capital Hockey Conference). We want to keep distance between us and everyone else because we want to win the league. ... That's why the lapses are very concerning.

We all bring some different elements at the Games. Everything is a stepping stone for us after playing these two games. These Games are preparing us to play a 60-minutes game and preparing us for the gold-medal game.

I think we're really good about pushing each other in practice and we have high tempo and I feel like we have some of the best players in the world so just competing against one another and getting in there and pushing each other around and getting ready for that physical style of game coming up, we have to play hard and pretend it's a game.

We always expect Northeastern to play hard in their own rink. We're feeling the urgency to really get some wins in Hockey East. We want home ice advantage for the playoffs.

We always get great crowds here. We played some of our best hockey that weekend.

Wayne Gretzky means a lot to hockey in Canada.

There's an old saying that when it gets tough the tough get going. You have to work your way through these things.

I always wanted to play professional hockey. Every hockey player's dream, no matter at what level or what age, is to play professionally. At first you don't know what it's all about, but you have that dream and you always work hard toward it. The older you get, the more you start dedicating yourself to the game.

If you don't know how to play hockey, learn. If you quit, get back out there.

I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates.

The one thing you realize when you play with Sean is how good a hockey player he is when he's not doing all the other stuff. Sean can score, he's got skill and he has unbelievable speed. And when he uses those tools, he's tough to stop out there.

We've become pretty good friends through playing with the Americans (at the world junior hockey championship). We'll chirp each other now and then and we'll give each other a slash when we have to, but it'll be good to go up against him. It's a good test for our team.

Whether we're down a goal, or up a goal or down two goals, we still believe in ourselves. Sixty minutes of hockey is what we need to play no matter what situation we're in.

We're going to snap out of it. It's not something we're in for the long haul. We've just got too good a hockey team here.

We're sort of playing a hunch as much as anything. He's played New Jersey well, and our last good game of hockey was here against them with Kevin in goal, so I don't think that is unreasonable at all.

We better start turning things around. We're getting near the end of the season, and things change. It's not the same hockey you're playing in December. It's different. It's playoff hockey. We're still playing December hockey.

What a great effort. It was a smart 60 minutes of hockey. I couldn't be more proud of this hockey club over the last two games.

What a huge game, just to play the USA, the powerhouse of baseball. We can play baseball, too. We're not just a hockey country.

Unfortunately, it went off a stick and went the other way on me. You can't fault anybody on it. Guys are trying hard to block shots and get in lanes and do the little things that win hockey games. Unfortunately, they get a lucky bounce.

We're extremely grateful for the broad coverage of hockey the NBC family is providing from the Olympic Winter Games. We hope that our teams will perform well and that the exposure will enhance our efforts to further grow the game in the U.S.

We're extremely pleased to continue our relationship with CSTV. The elite brand of hockey fans will see on Friday is due to the continuing development of women's hockey at all levels.

We're extremely pleased to have Paul as our general manager for the World Championship. We've been fortunate to be able to fill our management roles with elite members of the hockey community for many years and Paul no doubt continues that trend.

We feel that the NHL made the correct decision to reschedule Saturday's game as the South Florida community prepares for the arrival of Hurricane Wilma. The league acted in the best interest of the fans, our employees and both hockey clubs.

We're just not playing good hockey right now. We need to put out a good enough effort to win a game. We need more kids to out there and make things happen. I need some light bulbs to start going on in their heads.

We're just playing pretty solid hockey right now and not making too many big mistakes. Five on five, we're making it really tough for teams to play us. We're skating, and we're not giving them a lot of opportunities in our end, for the most part. We have to continue to play like that.

We're a veteran hockey club, we know better than that. We hung Manny out to dry.

We're becoming a good hockey team. You obviously want to win the games, but we're getting points over Jacksonville right now. It's a different feeling going into the locker room every night. A couple of months ago, we came into games hoping not to get embarrassed.

We are pleased to sign Philippe Boucher to a new contract that will keep him with the Dallas Stars for the next three seasons. Philippe has been a consistent performer for our hockey club and we are looking forward to his next three years with our organization.

We started out pretty sluggish and they were a hungry hockey team and really put us down early. We showed a lot of character coming back.

We're in the best of five right now. We've got three games in their building possibly. So we need to play the best hockey we can. If we can scoop a couple there, then we can come back home and take care of business.

We started playing ice hockey arenas and baseball stadiums which was not as good as the underground circuit. I didn't enjoy it as much.

We are a defensive hockey team and we have a system that we are going to stick to and it has kept us in game all year; even the games we lose are only by one goal.

We're really close, as are all the teams in our league. It's such a competitive league, every team in Hockey East is a contender. This year, it's going their way.

To play in the National Hockey League as a red blooded American kid... a Canadian kid, we all dreamed about it and I made a boyhood dream come true.

Ultimately it won't be systems that win or lose the hockey games, it will be how hard those players play within the system.

When I was a kid, they had six hockey teams, they had eight to 10 basketball teams. The teams played each other once, twice a week. Maybe we should stack (the schedule) a little in terms of conference games.

We know we have a good hockey team in here. We have to match their intensity and close it out.

(Crosby's arrival) will really revitalize hockey in Pittsburgh, back to when I was fortunate enough to win back in '91. It's pretty awesome. We've got our season tickets going crazy ... it's been pretty exciting around here.

Credibility is the biggest thing he brought. He thought the game better than anyone else besides (Wayne) Gretzky. It's pretty high praise, but it's not ridiculous. It's pretty accurate. As far as having hockey sense, he was second to one man and that man is not really human as far as I'm concerned.

Big sense of relief. In these games the hockey gods have to be with you. You have to get a few bounces.

At the end of the day, we're looking to find 22 or 23 guys who want a jersey, who want a spot on the team, ... So, whatever their skill sets are, whatever their physical attributes are, whatever they do to be effective hockey players, we recommend them to do that.

Blake takes a nice shot, and I think that changed the momentum of the hockey game. We just couldn't find our way back into it.

Bob Clarke and our entire hockey office have done an incredible job of putting together a top-notch lineup for the upcoming season. The response has been overwhelming and we can't wait to drop the puck.

Being a successful hockey player is overcoming when guys are shadowing you and out-thinking them. It makes it that much more worthwhile when a guy is shadowing you and you get a quick opening and you put the puck in the net.

Different sports will have different challenges, ... Hockey has been done a little bit. I'm not aware of anyone doing basketball. It's sort of a starting spot with us for baseball. We have talked about doing this for our NHL package. We're still fine-tuning that for the winter.

Doug is one of the premier forwards in the National Hockey League and will add a strong element to our top lines. His skill, leadership and experience will be a great benefit for our team.

Consistency has been a problem for us, especially on the road. But we played 50 minutes of good hockey tonight and that's not always enough, but it was tonight.

Could it be minus 40? ... Yeah. Would that be too cold to play? Yeah. But that's the risk you take when you put an NHL hockey game in a football stadium outside in November.

Cory Schneider was just outstanding tonight. Darn near stole the hockey game he was that in charge of the game.

What's best is having two points, ... We have played some good hockey clubs in the first four games. So we're just happy about the win. We got some great goaltending and we're fortunate.

When you lose and don't get a chance to play for a medal, it's the most disappointing thing that could happen in hockey right now for me.

When you lose a shootout, you feel like you've lost the hockey game. We didn't lose the hockey game. We lost a point and they gained a point.

When you lose the shootout, you feel like you lost the hockey game. But we didn't lose the hockey game. We lost a point and they gained a point. That's the reality of it.

When you only play 10 minutes of a hockey game, it's not too often you come out of it with a point, ... We need to realize that we are going to need some 60-minute efforts and that has been a concern of ours as of late.

We feel we can get away from our style that we've been successful with by trying to go out and make cute passes and that kind of thing. I respect that hockey team that they're going to shove it to us, as they did last game. Fortunately for us, our goaltender had a good night.

Every game was a dog fight. That's a great hockey club over there. We just managed to capitalize on some of the bounces.

Every role we've tried him out in, he's excelled. He's just playing, by far, the best hockey I've seen him play.

Every spring, this happens: People discover hockey when daylight lasts longer and men grow beards and tie games do not end in shootouts but rather continue until a goal is scored. The seventh game only heightens the mood for players and fans alike.

Everyone's saying, 'We're playing playoff hockey now,' and we are. We're playing for our lives. It's a huge game. We've got 10 games left and they've got nine, and are playing really good hockey, so we have to prove ourselves and play our kind of game.

Everyone wants to talk about that series two years ago. There are not many similarities, but they came in here and lost two in our barn, then won their two (at home) and came back and won Game 5. It's not out of the realm for us to beat that hockey club. But we need to win Game 3. We don't have to win the series in Game 3, we just have to try to win Game 3.

I've been skating since I was 2 years old. I have no problem with basketball, it just seems like a slower game to me. I like the pace of hockey better.

I've been working with my agent to try to get something set up. One of the things I think I'm going to start doing is a hockey school for sure because they are big hockey fans up there.

Coming from junior hockey and one year later having my name called out for the Carolina Hurricanes on opening night was an unbelievable experience.

I started young, but I didn't have a lot of hockey sense at first, wasn't even close to being the best guy on the ice. I just played all the time, from sunup to sundown.

I still dream about playing in the National Hockey League. I was a good player but I wasn't an unbelievable player. In Canada, you have to be unbelievable.

I've never had a feeling like this on a team. It just doesn't feel like we're ever going to lose even if we're down 4-1. We have all the tools to be able to come back and win hockey games.

It would have been frustrating and disappointing to not have played (during the Olympic break). When the opportunity came around (to play for Sweden), I couldn't have been happier. To play hockey at such a high-level tournament against top players, it really helped me.

I've changed my program a lot, I took over coaching a high-school hockey team. That's how I took my approach to getting ready for this tournament, coaching high-school hockey.

I've coached hockey for 18 years at every level conceivable. This group has worked harder than any group I've coached.

I've coached some good hockey players, but he's the best player I've ever coached. This guy, I always knew he was a good player, but I had no idea he was this good.

It would be hard to see this program peak out at such a young age. It has a lot of potential ahead of it. Hockey on the Western Slope is going to continue to grow. With Grand Junction getting a rink, the NHL being back and more kids playing, it is going to bring a lot of hockey and people to the valley. Hockey is infectious.

The worst lead in hockey is two goals, among coaches at least. But obviously, you'd rather have it than not have it.

The tough part now is that we're in a different situation than we were in 2002. We just missed one full season and I know there's probably some concerns from owners, probably more in the United States, in the sense of getting started again and trying to build that enthusiasm for the National Hockey League again and then having to shut it down for 17 days.

The tournament starts now. You can't calculate anymore and you can't choose your opponent. We hope to play the best game ever in Slovakian hockey history and we'll write history tomorrow.

The tournament was just a real breath of fresh air. It was nice to play playoff hockey in December.

Turf is the ideal surface to play field hockey on. It is much faster game and I think that the faster teams will benefit from it. Also, people who come out to watch the games will enjoy it more because there is less whistles to slow down the flow of the game.

You can't call her a girl hockey player. She's a hockey player who just happens to be a girl.