65 Hockey Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing hockey sayings.
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Short Hockey Sayings
“My goal is to stop yours.” —Unknown
“To succeed in hockey, you need teamwork.” —Henry Samueli
“When hell freezes over, I’ll play hockey there too.” —Unknown
“Hockey is the original extreme sport.” —Tom Ward
“Believe you can achieve your hockey goals and you’re halfway there.” —Felicity Luckey
“Let your mistakes make you better, not bitter.” —Unknown
“The legs feed the wolf.” —Herb Brooks
“Every day is a great day for hockey.” —Mario Lemieux
“Four out of five dentists surveyed recommended playing hockey.” —Unknown
“Hockey is a man’s game. The team with the most real men wins.” —Brian Burk
“It’s not how big you are, it’s how big you play!” —Unknown
“Hockey is figure skating in a war zone.” —Unknown
“If we keep winning, our destiny is in our own hands.” —Tim Horton
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” —Michael Jordan
“Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.” —Wayne Gretzky
“If you don’t know how to play hockey, learn. If you quit, get back out there.” —David Walton
“All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.” —Gordie Howe
“Hockey is where we live. Life is just a place we spend between games.” —Unknown
“It takes balls to play hockey.” —Unknown
“Don’t go through life without goals.” —Hockey Slogan
“I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out.” —Rodney Dangerfield
“Hockey players have fire in their hearts and ice in their veins.” —Unknown
“You’re not really a hockey player until you’ve lost a few teeth.” —Bill Gadsb
“Good players inspire themselves, great players inspire others.” —Unknown
“Practice hard,Train hard,work hard and Play harder.” —Alcurtis Turner
“You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.” —Gordie Howe
“Sometimes it just feels like the only thing you do is play hockey and eat.” —Henrik Lundqvist
“Hockey is murder on ice.” —Jim Murray
“Hockey is like a disease, you can’t really shake it.” —Ken Wregget
“Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.” —Doug Larson
“We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.” —Bobby Clarke
Hockey Sayings
“Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.” —Wayne Gretzky
“Sometimes you do the hard work and set the table and somebody else eats the meal.” —Brian Burke
“Hockey players are like mules. They have no fear of punishment and no hope of reward.” —Emory Jones
“Winning means you are willing to go longer, work harder and give me than anyone else.” —Unknown
“You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.” —Unknown
“We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don’t even have to go to the hospital.” —Brad Park
“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.” —Satchel Paige
“A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can’t hit one another.” —Jimmy Cannon
“Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.” —Wayne Gretzky
“There may be players better than you, but there is no excuse for anyone working harder than you!” —Unknown
“I wasn’t naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that’s the way I’ll be as a coach.
“There are no environments where you’re only going to win, because life just isn’t like that.” —Bobby Orr
“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” —Wayne Gretzky
“Hockey players wear numbers because you can’t always identify the body with dental records.” —Unknown
“Hockey’s the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.” —Sydney J. Harris
“The only difference between you and your goal is the story that you tell yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” —Unknown
“I know my players don’t like my practices, but that’s OK because I don’t like their games.” —Harry Neale
“You see a hockey player, you’d never know he’s a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.” —Junior Seau
“Street hockey is great for kids. It’s energetic, competitive, and skillful. And best of all it keeps them off the street.” —Unknown
“Hockey’s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It’s not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself.” —Paul Coffey
“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
“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.” —Unknown
“The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts…nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.” —Maureen Johnson
“They were checking us so closely, I could tell what brand of deodorant they were using.” —Gary Dornhoefer
Top Ten Hockey Sayings
Here you will find top ten Hockey Sayings selected by our team.
- “You’re not really a hockey player until you’ve lost a few teeth.” —Bill Gadsb
- “Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.” —Wayne Gretzky
- “Sometimes you do the hard work and set the table and somebody else eats the meal.” —Brian Burke
- “Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.” —Wayne Gretzky
- “Winning means you are willing to go longer, work harder and give me than anyone else.” —Unknown
- “You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.” —Unknown
- “I wasn’t naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that’s the way I’ll be as a coach.” —Unknown
- “A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can’t hit one another.” —Jimmy Cannon
- “Hockey is a man’s game. The team with the most real men wins.” —Brian Burk
- “There may be players better than you, but there is no excuse for anyone working harder than you!” —Unknown
