“Hockey is like a disease, you can’t really shake it.” -Ken Wregget
Stanley Cup (via Wikimedia Commons)
Ice hockey is the best sport, gloves down. If you try to debate it to any fan or player, we’ll drop the gloves and prove you wrong. Two minutes in the sin bin, well worth it. A compilation of hockey quotes to get you through the rest of the week…
“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
“Hockey players have fire in their hearts and ice in their veins.” – Unknown
“Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental.” – Jim McKenny
“Ice hockey players can walk on water.” – Unknown
“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
“Every day is a great day for hockey.” -Mario Lemieux (or every person who has watched and played the sport)
“My drinking team has a hockey problem” -Unknown
“You miss 100% of the shots you never take.” Wayne Gretzky
“All hockey players are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.” – Gordie Howe
“High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing……everything else is just figure skating.” – Scotty Bowman
“Don’t go through life without goals.” – Hockey Slogan
