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

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.
Ted Lindsay

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

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

Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.
Steve Nash

But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
Daley Thompson

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.
Leigh Steinberg

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
Ted Lindsay

Canada is hockey.
Mike Weir

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.
Brett Hull

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
Jamie Farr

Every day is a great day for hockey.
Mario Lemeiux

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.
Mario Lemeiux

For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.
Barbara Mandrell

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
Bobby Orr

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
Tiger Woods

Hockey is a tough game.
Bobby Orr

Hockey is the original extreme sport.
Tom Ward

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.
Steven Chu

I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey.
Rob Zombie