Quotations about Hockey

Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect. ~Steve Rushin


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. ~Stephen Leacock


Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept. ~Doug Larson


By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of the NHL playoff series. ~Steve Rushin


October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football. ~Jason Love


A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another. ~Jimmy Cannon


Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental. ~Jim McKenny


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


Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be. ~Wayne Gretzky


Ice hockey players can walk on water. ~Author Unknown


Hockey players have fire in their hearts and ice in their veins. ~Author Unknown


Hockey is murder on ice. ~Jim Murray


Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all it keeps them off the street. ~Author Unknown


My other car is a Zamboni. ~Hockey Saying


Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records. ~Author Unknown


Don't go through life without goals. ~Hockey Saying


Hockey is figure skating in a war zone. ~Author Unknown


High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing... everything else is just figure skating. ~Author Unknown


Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ~John Leonard


Four out of five dentists surveyed recommended playing hockey. ~Author Unknown


Give blood. Play hockey. ~Author Unknown


All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. ~Gordie Howe


My goal is to deny yours. ~Hockey Saying


When Hell freezes over, I'll play hockey there too. ~Author Unknown


Black people dominate sports in the United States - 20 percent of the population and 90 percent of the Final Four. We own this shit. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and as soon as they make a heated hockey rink we'll take that shit too. ~Chris Rock


Red ice sells hockey tickets. ~Bob Stewart


I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out. ~Rodney Dangerfield


We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital. ~Brad Park