"Is hockey hard? I don't know you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the stamina of a marathon runner and the concentration of a plastic surgeon. But we need to put this all together while moving at high speeds on a cold and slippery ice while 5 other guys use clubs and try to kill us, oh yeah did i mention that this whole time were standing on blades 1/8 of an inch thick? Is hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me."
-Brendan Shanahan
"When we've got the puck they can't score."
-Paul Coffey
"Every day is a great day for hockey."
-Mario Lemelux
"Goal tending is a normal job, sure. How would you like it if every time you made a mistake a red light went on over your desk and 15,000 people stood up and yelled at you."
-Jacques Plante
"Hockey is a tough game."
-Bobby Orr
"The greatest compliment you can pay me is to say I work hard everyday."
-Wayne Gretzy
" It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts, It's what you put into the practice.
-Eric Lindos
"Hockey is a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. You have to take pride in yourself."
-Gorie Howe
"Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental."
-Jim McKenny
"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great Hockey Player plays where the puck is going to be."
-Wayne Gretzky
" You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
-Wayne Gretzky
"Hockey is the original extreme sport."
- Tom Ward
You don't have to be crazy to be a goalie but, it helps!
-Bernie Parent
"Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but, football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns."
-John Lenord
"Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players."
-Kristi Yanaguchi