Great Hockey Quotes
Vancouver Canucks Op Ed’s Thursday Quote Sheet was actually posted this Tuesday because they were busy switching from Blogger to their own domain so be sure to check them out at their new “home.” Since I really don’t have time for much else, here are some funny/interesting hockey quotes posted on a forum topic at Lets Go Wings including my personal favorites…
“I don’t understand why I can’t hit that ball. I mean it’s this big, slow, ball & I just can’t hit the thing. Maybe if I could run the bases with the bat in my hand I would enjoy it more. I could hit players as I go by, you know just a little cuff in the chin & maybe catch the next guy behind the ear.” - Brendan Shanahan on softball
“I get up every day, and I live. Everybody says you should live to the fullest, but what is it? No one knows until you come so close that you’re not worried about anything else but being alive.” - Jiri Fischer
“Aww, don’t worry Doc. If that happens, I can always come back as a forward!” - Harold Snepsts after being advised by a doctor to wear a helmet to avoid brain damage
“Watching a shootout is like admitting you watch Survivor or search the internet for porn.” - Brendan Shanahan
“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
“This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.” - Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) after admiring the Stanley Cup
“To be honest, I think I’ve talked enough in the last two months to be up here talking again. I’d like to thank the media, first of all…. That was a very good joke, wasn’t it?” - After Chris Osgood won the Stanley Cup
“We should all just go outside, lie on our backs and look at the clouds. We have a better chance of figuring out the clouds then what’s going on in this dressing room.” - Chris Osgood confounded by the Wings and Scotty Bowman
“We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games.†- Philadelphia Flyers Coach Fred Shero
In Chicago, Bob Probert crashed his motorcycle into a car. According to police reports, his blood-alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit and he told officers: “Just charge me with the usual.”
Pavel on winning the Stanley Cup…” It is a feeling I cannot explain, like seeing the sun coming up in the morning…it’s wonderful.”
“You know, there’s nothing better than making yourself dinner and watching Thursday night TV. Also, I just got a computer. And I’m fanatical about doing the laundry. There’s nothing better than a stack of fresh, clean clothes. Except maybe a good movie. You know that creepy-looking guy you stare at two seats behind you, thinking who would come to a movie by himself? That’s me.” - Brendan Shanahan
Brendan Shanahan said to the Detroit fans after winning the Stanley Cup: “When I asked for a trade at the beginning of the year, I said I was looking for a home. And I found one. I’m just grateful to everyone here. Thank you for accepting me.”
There’s one thing you can’t defend against, and that’s courage. Steve Yzerman just keeps laying it out on the line every shift.
Chris Pronger tried to hit Steve Yzerman. Now we all know that Yzerman has a bum right knee. Well, Pronger tries to hit him and gets a bum right knee himself- a torn ACL. The St. Louis Blues need Pronger like humans need oxygen.
“I consider the Detroit Red Wings one of the greatest franchises in any sport. For a player to come in and play, it’s so special to wear the jersey.” - Steve Yzerman
“Some nights you’d see him try to climb up the stairs to get on an airplane and wonder, ‘How can he be ready for a game in 24 hours?’ But that’s part of the package you see every day when you are around Steve Yzerman. I always thought I knew how much it took to win a Stanley Cup, but I didn’t really get it until I sat in that locker room and on that bench and watched Steve.†– Luc Robitaille
Datsyuk undresses more guys in a season than a prostitute does throughout her career.
“Brett, do you catch flak for listing crossword puzzles as a hobby?” -Dan Patrick / “What Dan? Do I catch flak because I AM SO MUCH SMARTER than everybody else?” -Brett Hull
“I usually call the new guy and let him know where I like to sit on the bus, tell him ways he can stay out of my way, make sure he knows not to touch any of my stuff,” Brendan Shanahan said.
“Trade Steve Yzerman? That’s like asking me if I want to trade my son Jason for the kid next door.” - Jacques Demers
“The game is my chance to say good-bye to fans there, and I’m looking forward to it,” Igor Larionov said. “It’s been a long career, and this is my last season. I have no regrets about anything. I am not sad about retiring. I have had many glorious years, but I have had no better years than my years with Red Wings. No better.”
GM Ken Holland, alone in his office: “Heads, keep Curtis Joseph. Tails, trade him. … OK, make that best of three.”
“With a contact sport I can go out and have everything go OK, just like it has for years, or I could get hurt again. I’m very bullheaded. Every time I try to avoid this question of, ‘What if it happens again?’ Well, it might happen again. But I also might walk out on a street and have a car run a red light and run me over. It is scary because the risk I’m running is higher. But you can’t let that stop you from doing something. This is what I was born to do - born to play hockey.” - Flyers center Jeremy Roenick on his decision to return to the ice after a serious concussion and broken jaw
“Yzerman is not the youngest, the strongest, nor the fastest, and he was never the biggest. But make no mistake, he is the maximus of gladiators, the man who fights wounded and bleeding, with a heart as large as any lion they spring on him.” - Mitch Albom
“The top three worst things I’ve seen in hockey? The invention of the trap. The invention of the morning skate. And the invention of the extremely ugly uniform.” -Brett Hull’s analysis of the game
“Well, what I did was bring the octopus in a brown paper bag. I always let the people sitting around know what I was going to do. Most of them took the news quite calmly. Once, though, this woman beside me let out a scream. I had leaned over and said to her very quietly, ‘Look, I think you should know. I’m the octopus-thrower.’ She couldn’t take it.” -Pete Cusimano
“Great fans make great team. Together, they make Hockeytown.” -Kozlov
“This is our canvas. Our easel. This is how we paint, on fresh sheets of ice.” - Jeremy Roenick
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