Famous Hockey Quotes

[Roamer]

This might make for an interesting thread. Post a memorable hockey quote, preferably a one liner. It can be your own or quote someone else, like I did with Canuck eh?

And here are a couple more to get things started!

Canuck eh? quoting Nazem Kadri: "Give me a crayon and I'll draw a penalty."

Ted Green: "Tell him he's Wayne Gretzky!" After Shawn Van Allen sustained a concussion and could not remember who he was.

Bill Barber: "You hate to lose your teeth and the game too!"

 

[Nasty_Magician]

Pete DeBoer on John Tortarella:

"I guess in John's world you can come into our building and start your tough guys, but we can't do the same here," DeBoer told reporters. "He's either got short-term memory loss or he's a hypocrite."

 

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Darryl Sutter on Roman Hamrlik wanting $5 million per season - "He should go buy a lottery ticket"

 

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Harry Neale: "Last year we couldn't win at home and we couldn't win on the road - My failure as a coach is that I couldn't think of another place to play"

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Gilles Lupien in the penalty box:

Hey Wensik!! Wensik! Fuck you Wensik!!

 

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Roberto Luongo: "My contract sucks"

 

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Jim Schoenfeld: "Have another donut, you fat pig"

 

[pixburgher66]

Not a one liner, but needed in such a thread.

 

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John Tortorella to Larry Brooks: "You were probably beat up at the bus stop as a kid"

 

[davnlaguna]

Jonathan Douglas Quick
Thank you so much. How about this fuckin’ team right here! Look at this fuckin’ team. Look at these fuckin’ guys!

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Bobby Clarke:

Hey Friday! You fucking faggot!!




I think it was Friday, maybe Bruce Hood?

 

[Canuck eh?]

And now for the King of Quotes....


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[Canuck eh?]

Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids.
Bobby Hull

 

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""If I had the Rangers payroll, I'd win the Stanley Cup every year"

- Glen Sather

 

[Canuck eh?]

I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
Nancy Kerrigan


(she should have kept it)

 

[Canuck eh?]

""If I had the Rangers payroll, I'd win the Stanley Cup every year"

- Glen Sather

"Nice"
Canuck eh?

 

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"I've been in hockey a long, long time and I've never been this embarrassed...we'll probably call the Mayo clinic for 18 heart transplants"

- Orval Tessier after a bad playoff loss to the Oilers

 

[davnlaguna]

"Our penalty killing is just X's and O's ... and sacrifice"

 

[forty_three]

“Goaltender is a normal job. Sure ! How would you like it if at your job, every time you made the slightest mistake a little red light went on over your head and 18,000 people stood up and screamed at you?” -Jacques Plante

“There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending.” – Valdislav Tretiak

“Only a goalie can appreciate what a goalie goes through.” – Jacques Plante

“Sixty minutes of hell” – Glenn Hall

"Tell Jeremy I can't hear what he says because I have my two Stanley Cup rings blocking my ears" - Patrick Roy

“You don’t have to be crazy to play goal, but it helps.” – Bernie Parent

 

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"Half the GMs in the league would trade their roster for ours"

- Kevin Lowe