Top 34 Hockey Quotes

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Hockey is one of the big sports past times. With that in mind, check out the top 34 hockey quotes to get you ready to play this winter.

#34 – 30. Hockey Quotes

34. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it. – Hank Aaron

33. The playoffs separate the men from the boys, and we found out we have a lot of boys in our dressing room. – Neil Smith

32. 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

31. Hockey is murder on ice. – Jim Murray

30. Hockey is not a one-man show; it’s a team effort. If you don’t work as a team – even if one or two guys aren’t working – you’re not going to win. That’s the way it is. – Guy Lafleur.

#29 – 20. Hockey Quotes

29. The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it. – Wayne Gretzky

28. A fast body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet. – Paul Gallico

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

26. Play with passion and heart. If you don’t carry passion into sport – or into any job for that matter – you won’t succeed. – Phil Esposito

25. 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

24. To succeed in hockey, you need teamwork. – Henry Samueli

23. In any other context, ‘icing’ is a great and exciting word: The proverbial icing on the cake, for instance, is a bonus – a wonderful thing on top of another wonderful thing. But in hockey, icing merely results in the referee’s raising his right hand, as if swearing an oath to the deity of downtime. – Steve Rushin

22. You’ve always been ‘The Great One,’ but tonight you’ve become The Greatest. – Gary Bettman II

21. My teeth weren’t that good to begin with, so hopefully I can get some better ones. – Duncan Keith

20. Why is a puck called a puck? Because dirty little bastard was taken. – Martin Brodeur

#19 – 10. Hockey Quotes

19. Sometimes you do the hard work and set the table and somebody else eats the meal. – Brian Burke

18. It’s more fun to be playing hockey than doing anything else. – Connor McDavid.

17. Yeah, I’m cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn’t mean I’m not a nice person. – Jeremy Roenick

16. We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor. – Bobby Clarke

15. Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow. – John Mariucci

14. 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. – Gordie Howe

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

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

11. You only reach the hockey goals you aim at. Therefore, you might as well aim at reaching your ultimate hockey goals. – Felicity Luckey.

10. I often look at the guys who can whistle before a game and shake my head. You’d think they didn’t have a care in the world. Me? I’m just plain miserable before every game. – Glenn Hall

#9 – 1. Hockey Quotes

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

8. Great moments are born from great opportunities. – Herb Brooks

7. People don’t know how fantastic women’s ice hockey is. People don’t know how fantastic hockey is in general. – Hilary Knight

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

5. This is your moment. You’re meant to be here. – Herb Brooks

4. Sometimes you do the hard work and set the table, and somebody else eats the meal. – Brian Burke

3. It’s not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it’s what you put into the practice. – Eric Lindros

2. The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky

1. I guarantee we’ll win tonight. – Mark Messier

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