Hockey Quotes

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."

"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been."

"The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day."

"No matter who you are, no matter how good an athlete you are, we're creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they'll be in pressure situations."

"I went to the rink to skate fast and play hard. Everything else took care of itself."

"Forget about style; worry about results."

"I am score."

"It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice."

"When you're playing against a great player, the last thing you want to do is wake him up."

"I believe that if you think small, you'll stay small."

"Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful."

"There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending."

"Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental."

"My goal is to deny yours."

"I can't hear what Jeremy says because I've got my two Stanley Cup rings plugging my ears."

"I just try to go out there and be the best player I can be every night."

"You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed — you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that."

"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again."

"I've always been a big dreamer. When I was young, I had my goals set and I just went for it."

"Speed is my weapon. But speed without the puck is just skating."

"You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner."

"Every game is an opportunity to make a statement."

"The best thing about hockey is that it's a team sport. No one player can do it alone."

"I want to be remembered as someone who gave everything they had, every single shift."

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."

"I don't play hockey because I'm a girl. I play hockey because I'm an athlete."

"Every time you step on the ice, you have a chance to inspire someone."

"We're not asking for special treatment. We're asking for equal opportunity."

"Little girls need to see women playing sports to know that it's possible."

"The game doesn't care about your gender. The puck doesn't know."

"We played for the love of the game long before anyone was paying attention."

"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts."

"Great moments are born from great opportunity."

"You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours."

"The legs feed the wolf."

"The name on the front of the jersey is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back."

"Demand more of yourself than anyone else could ever expect."

"I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt."

"The best way to show people how good you are is by being consistent."

"The key is not the will to win — everybody has that. It's the will to prepare to win that is important."

"You don't have to be the biggest. You don't have to be the strongest. But you do have to be the most prepared."

"Discipline is doing what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, as well as it can be done, and doing it that way all the time."

"He shoots, he scores!"

"What a save by Price!"

"Do you believe in miracles? Yes!"

"Hockey is the only game where you can hit somebody and go to a penalty box and feel guilty. Then you get out, and the first thing you want to do is hit somebody."

"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out."

"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."

"Win today and walk together forever."

"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team."

"Hockey's a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself."

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."

"The only way to prove you're a good sport is to lose."

"Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where it's going to be."

"Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the weights and measures are a six-ounce rubber disk and a little device called a hockey stick."

"You don't go to the penalty box and sit there and feel sorry for yourself. You go there and think about what you're going to do when you get out."

"My teeth weren't that good to begin with, so hopefully I can get some better ones."

"Playing hockey is easy. Playing it every night is a whole different deal."

"I tell them, 'Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.'"

"There are no shortcuts. Everything is reps, reps, reps."

"Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive."

"All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity."

"You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave — win or lose."

"Put me in front of fifty thousand people, let me compete, I am in my element. Take me to a cocktail party of ten people, and I am uncomfortable."

"Hockey is a tough game. With your left hand you hold your stick. With your right hand you hold up your teeth."

"How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?"

"In Russia, hockey is not just a sport. It is part of the national identity."

"Swedish hockey is built on creativity, skill, and teamwork. We don't fight — we outsmart."

"The perfect game is like the perfect poem. Everything flows."

"Finnish hockey teaches you that silence on the ice is louder than any words."

"In Czech Republic, we learn to play with the puck before we learn to fight for it."

"Hockey is the only sport where you can fight and not get arrested."

"In life, as in hockey, you need to stay between the pipes."

"Give blood, play hockey."

"Hockey is not a sport. It's a way of life."

"The ice is the great equalizer. It doesn't care about your background, your size, or your story. It only cares about what you do on it."

"Home ice is where the heart is."

"Hockey: where else can you get a penalty for being too awesome?"

"Life is a lot like hockey — you have to keep moving, or you'll get hit."

"Four out of five dentists recommend hockey."

"The three stars of the game: coffee, hockey, and more coffee."

"Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better."

"I just go where the puck tells me to go, then I make something happen."

"The game has gotten so much faster. You have to think ahead, not just play ahead."

"Pressure is a privilege — it only comes to those who earn it."

"When the game is over, I just want to know that I gave everything I had."

"The minute you think you've made it, someone hungrier comes along."

"Play for the name on the front of the jersey, and they'll remember the name on the back."

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision."

"Hockey is like a religion in Montreal."

"The secret is to always let the game come to you, never force anything."

"I'm not a role model. I'm a hockey player."

"Hockey is about sacrifice. Blocking shots, killing penalties, taking hits. It's a team game in every way."

"The best teams aren't just talented — they play for each other."

"I want to be the player that kids pretend to be on the pond."

"Women's hockey deserves everything men's hockey has. We're not asking for more — just equal."

"You don't have to be the best. You just have to give your best."

"The puck doesn't go in by itself. You have to will it in."

"A team is only as strong as its weakest link — so we don't have weak links."

"Hockey taught me everything I know about life: get up after every fall, protect your teammates, and never quit."

"The rink is the one place where everything makes sense."