Great quotes about hockey

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

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

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

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

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

Playing hockey, there were a lot of guys bigger than me, so I knew I was going to get hit and have to deal with it. Gotta hit back.
Mike Weir

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.
Martina Hingis

Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they’re too tough to cry.
Brett Hull

That’s the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey – and know they can win a gold medal, too.
Angela Ruggiero

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