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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

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

John Leonard

You saw the fans. Everybody just stood up and was anxious to get it going. I think it's good for hockey.

Alex Tanguay

They're a good team. They've got some good hockey players.

Dick Umile

It's good the team is back again. You can never have too much hockey.

Jason Clarke

If you can get into a team's head that they can't beat us and are going to have to play their best hockey to even be close, that's going to pay dividends in a playoff series.

Jason Williams

A hot goaltender in hockey can sometimes take you far and we were fortunate to slip two shots behind Gabby today.

Michele Amidon

With all the hockey we have in the building right now, there was no way we had enough locker rooms.

Cindy Jensen

Golf is sort of a family thing. It's fun, but I don't like golf half as much as I like hockey.

Maura O'connor

He is one heck of a hockey player. He may be the fastest player in high school hockey. I would put him up against anybody.

John Mooney

I'm out driving the kids to hockey or basketball or baseball. It was time for me to do something for myself.

Mary Macdonald

Anything that's going to compromise that and is going to set us back, then, as you can tell, in the American culture we'll look for the next best thing. And football will be gone, and it will be hockey next year.

Ruben Brown

It is most unfortunate that one of the most esteemed coaches in major junior hockey should express his opinions in the fashion that he chose.

David Branch

West Fargo is a good hockey club. I have a lot of respect for them, and I feel for their seniors.

Jay Haugland

I've never been to a hockey game in my life. But I have to admit this is pretty cool.

Steve Boyd

We like to tell everyone we can play baseball, too. We're not just a hockey country.

Adam Stern

They as a group were not hockey fans per say but wanted to go. Now they are going to games all the time.

Bernadette Mansur

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

Gordie Howe

They were exactly what Branford hockey is all about. They played disciplined, worked hard, and fore-checked. We need more of that.

Larry Vieira

I think we're playing together more, playing consistent hockey.

Grant Marshall

It's hard to believe. If you play college hockey, this is where you hope to be someday, playing in the Frozen Four. Now I'm here.

Travis Ramsey

She is an avid field hockey player with the confidence and toughness that we look for.

Ann Gold

That's not fun. Hockey is no fun if you aren't playing for anything.

Willie Mitchell

He?s an unbelievable player. That?s why he?s one of the top players in Hockey East. He finds a way to get it in the net.

Tyler Sims

I'm just going to have to play good hockey and not worry about these things.

Bryan Miller

We know he likes to hit people. I'm anxious to see his hockey sense and how he handles things.

Mario Tremblay

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Ted Sim

They play an honest style of hockey. They're going to beat you at their game, and that is hard-hitting, hard-nosed hockey.

John Lafontaine

I'm happy for him. I told him he's going to enjoy it there. It's a great hockey town.

Alexander Mogilny

He's a great man with a lot of potential after hockey. He's got a great wife and a great family, and he's still got a lot to look forward to.

Pierre Lacroix

She dedicated herself to hockey. And it shows.

Glen Gilderman

In Canada we may actually be stronger in freestyle skiing than we are in hockey.

Warren Tanner

Three glaring mistakes cost us the three goals. You're going to make mistakes in a hockey game. They made some, and we couldn't get by Elliott.

Bob Motzko

For me, the Number 1 thing is to play hockey and the rest of the things will work out.

Petr Nedved

It's really too bad because for Canada at these Olympics, it was very successful. We're all very disappointed as a men's hockey team we didn't win the gold.

Robyn Regehr

We'll have one two weeks in August. We hope to book a youth hockey tournament here.

Robbie Nichols

I definitely need to be better individually but our main goal was to win the hockey game and we did that. Now we move on to tomorrow.

Dion Phaneuf

It was do-or-die. We have nothing to lose and with our backs to the wall we're playing our best hockey.

Steve Montador

I think we can bring a focus to (hockey) and storytelling and coverage that will be something new. We're optimistic about growing the sport.

Gavin Harvey

In the Midland game, we were a ticked off hockey club, coming off of a bad loss.

Wes Parent

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

Rodney Dangerfield

The first time we were in it felt like the Super Bowl. This time it felt more like a hockey game.

Tony Quesada

My younger brother, David, plays hockey for Plum and my mom takes him from game-to-game when me and my dad are gone.

Jonathan Smith

We'd end up in the office talking hockey. He offered (to coach), and I'm not one to turn down help.

Don Macadam

I talk about hockey everyday. A lot of people don't want to hear it, but I talk about it anyway.

Andy Strickland

There's not a lot of coaching going on - I'm just the guy on the bench. But it should be fun and I think it'll be an intense game of hockey.

Doug Schueller

I don't remember the last time in Pirate hockey history that we had back-to-back 10-goal games.

Jeff Perreault

In a lot of ways, it seems like it has gone very quickly. I'm very surprised it's 1,000 games. That's a lot of hockey.

Nigel Kirwan

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

Wayne Gretzky

(Lowell is) hard to play against. They don't have that good of a record but they are a good hockey team.

Pierre Parenteau

People think hockey is a hard game to understand. It's not. It's probably the easiest game to understand.

Chuck Kaiton

We gave up some bad penalties and the Blues capitalized on all of their chances, and that's what hockey is all about.

Chris Kunitz

It has to be the '80 Olympic hockey team.

Al Oerter

I have nothing to say. I can't change anything. There's no place in hockey for kicking. It doesn't matter what I say now, five games is five games.

Martin Havlat

An avowed homosexual, that would never be accepted in hockey - never! Because it's a milieu where everyone is often naked.

Pat Burns

He has had phenomenal impact on amateur hockey.

John W. Gardner

This run has given us a lot of confidence. In hockey, confidence is huge.

Colton Fretter

You want to see one of the top players in your lineup. He's a big part of this hockey club.

Marian Hossa

As a hockey player, it's one of the things you dread. It made me realize to be careful out there, especially when you have your back to the play.

Marc Chouinard

Climate change is the biggest threat to hockey since the NHL labor talks.

Mike Hudema

This kid is playing great hockey; she's won many critical face-offs.

Mike Reardon

Ultimately, catch-up hockey is losing hockey.

Ted Donato

The kids had heard it from their peers and the hockey community that this was going to be a down year. We had to sell it to them that we are capable.

John Jost

That's bush-league. I haven't seen that in pro hockey.

Alain Vigneault

For them to get in to play hockey, they have to be elite hockey players, so ... you have to have high talent level, you have to have a high GPA, and there is financial aid available.

Tim Pergram

It's the biggest hockey tournament in Northwest Colorado. It's also some of the best hockey you'll see around here.

Greg Neal

We didn't play well enough defensively. We're a pretty good defensive hockey club, and when you give up five goals it's tough to win games.

Zenon Konopka

For hockey players, the ice is their grand piano, their Stradivarius.

Jim Lites

A lot of things could happen. If something happens, it's meant to be. I want to get healthy. I want to play. I'm trying to focus on hockey. It's the only thing I can think about.

Filip Kuba

You know it's hockey season when .

Mike Thompson

It was one of those days. The icing on the cake was not having our luggage make it. We got my sticks and my hockey equipment and that was it.

Cale Hulse

I'm just going to concentrate on playing hockey.

Jay Mckee

That line is getting the job done for us. It's what you have to have from your top line if you're going to win hockey games.

Joe Nieuwendyk

Life without hockey, I hope I don't have to face it for some time.

Jiri Fischer

It's kind of fun to see we've won every title there is for hockey. Not a lot of people can say that.

Chris Harrington

My wife's dad was a tough guy. That's where Cam must get it. He was always fighting as a kid. That's why I got him into hockey when he was 8 or 9.

Cam Janssen

We're excited. It's Christmas vacation and all we have to worry about is hockey.

Josh Blaisdell

They're going to be tremendous hockey teams. We only have to beat them once, we don't have to beat them in a four-out-of-seven.

Blair Mackasey

We'll have to see what all the options are before anything gets decided. But hockey is different today. The new (collective bargaining agreement) makes things much different.

Yanic Perreault

Matt has developed into a solid two-way player with our hockey club and we look forward to his continued growth as a player for our club.

Dave Nonis

Colgate has some good hockey players and did a great job tonight.

Rand Pecknold

Our group of defensemen played the best game of hockey they have all year long.

Tim Ceglarski

The guys are both just a step away from the NHL. We'll see what the summer brings. It's a big step from college hockey to professional.

Justin Duberman

Is there a better top two lines in hockey?

Marian Hossa

Hockey I think is going to change and evolve tremendously in the next two years.

Steve Burke

I've never played hockey, it was a lucky shot, I had no idea where it was going.

Aaron Guiel

It was good to contribute. It was really big for our hockey team, we've been on the short end of the stick the last couple of games but this will be a boost for our team.

Richard Park

(Sell and Hennessy) make moves you don't see in high school girls hockey. They're a notch above everyone else.

Pat Morelli

Bryan's focus is on playing good hockey -- that's the top priority right now.

Jeff Solomon

It's impossible for me to go back and put on that hockey sweater again.

Paul Coffey

Of course we expected to face the U.S., but our medal will still be gold if we win. I'm disappointed for them, but I'm happy for Sweden and happy for our game. It's a great thing for women's hockey.

Cherie Piper

We've got to find a way to beat them. We can't play hang-on hockey. We've got to go out and take it to them and make plays and be aggressive. If you play hang-on hockey in this league, they're going to beat you.

Michael Cammalleri

I don't think we've played our best hockey yet. But they are finding ways to win.

Ralph Russo

We expect our game against Scotland to be open and they will come out playing attacking hockey.

Jenny King

Putting on three hockey games is something we do all the time. It's all the other things that go into it.

Doug Beard

He had to gain a much better understanding of when to try one-on-one hockey and when he could try some of the moves he has.

Brian Mccutcheon

After the first period on Friday we played some very solid hockey. We did a lot of the little things right.

Mark Hudak

That's old-time hockey right there and that's going to be a highlight for a while.

Darren Mccarty

Everybody in the bar was riveted on the TV and I thought I wonder if there is a way to do a hockey fight competition.

Darryl Wolski

I'm not a big worrier simply due to the fact that it doesn't do anything for you. It's a matter of getting our hockey club to play consistent hockey, and that's what we have to do in Game 3.

Greg Puhalski

The penalties were an embarrassment. That's not hockey. There was no flow to the game.

Jeff Jackson

The goalie cam is going to be a very different look at the game of hockey. It's stunning to see what a goalie has to put up with to try to stop a black disc.

Sam Flood

We played playoff hockey. We played like men out there and we played like a team.

Travis Zajac

I'm not here for nothing. They've got their job to make their decisions, but my job is to play hockey and do my best when I'm on the ice. I think that's what I'm doing right now.

Guillaume Latendresse

I'm just happy to be back playing hockey with the boys, and that's all that matters.

Mark Parrish

Every game was a dog fight. That's a great hockey club over there. We just managed to capitalize on some of the bounces.

Scott Muscutt

Certainly I think it's better for college hockey when you have things spread out, but it doesn't always work that way.

Tim Whitehead

It's certainly part of the hockey culture.

Alison Macpherson

That's not a play that should be in hockey. You can definitely hurt somebody worse than I was hurt.

Kyle Wellwood

Experience, and know-how to win hockey games.

Brendan Shanahan

Just a few family and friends and some of my buddies and hockey parents from when I played minor hockey.

Paul Ranger

These two young men coming in will compete for positions on our hockey team, ... We expect them to help the defense and goaltending form the nucleus of our team.

Mike Schafer

If you get off balance, it's just as bad as a hockey groin injury.

Catherine O'connor

This will probably be the only Olympic event we see, other than hockey.

Tony Tuzzolino

We had five weeks to get hockey on the air. We moved mountains to deliver hockey to the fans.

Jeff Shell

The first day here, it was fun to meet the guys again. Some of them I hadn't met in a year and a half. It's really fun to be back, and I think everyone is excited to get back to playing hockey again.

Tomas Holmstrom

I think they've had to work a little bit hard because college hockey is a little bit better.

Mark Jacobs

This was a very good high school hockey game. I couldn't be any prouder of this team. They showed a lot of character and so much heart.

Al Melanson

That was a different life for me, ... Golf and hockey are different games with a different set of skills. But maybe some of the competitiveness from hockey rubs off on golf.

John Harris

He was really the foundation of hockey in Atlanta. This is a big loss to the Atlanta hockey community. I hope people realize that.

Dan Bouchard

I can't do another season without hockey.

Steffon Walby

That's the beauty of junior hockey. You have to show up and compete every night.

Regg Simon

Hockey has to repair the damage that has been done.

Phil Esposito

I can?t wait to play a real hockey game when I have to go back into the ?D? zone.

Natalie Darwitz

I'm not a guy that likes the attention that much. I'm a guy that likes to go out and play hockey and have some fun.

Phil Kessel

I'm an old time hockey player and I'm still standing behind him until I see something concrete.

Billy Smith

We have absolutely no doubts about this deal. We stand behind Wayne Gretzky 100 percent. He's been a great ambassador for Canada, for hockey and for the Olympics.

Michael Budman

I think it just shows how much women's hockey is growing and how good it is to all the fans out here.

Nikki Burish

Its a very affordable way to go, compared to travel hockey, which can run anywhere from $2,500 to $8,000 a year. That's one reason why Fishers Youth Hockey was created.

Mike Berger

It's going to be the most important hockey game of my life.

Adam Aron

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

Brett Hull

He's a talented hockey player. It's great when specialists of his class oversee hockey.

Leonid Tyagachyov

Thomas is a solid hockey player; always has been. But his confidence is really high right now.

Don Jennings

It was a great hockey game. The goaltenders were tremendous on both sides and there was a lot of up-and-down action.

Katey Stone

These are the games that you build confidence with. We worked hard, Laredo worked hard and it was a great hockey game.

Matt Cressman

Coaching's a lot easier on the body. I'm still involved in hockey and I really enjoy being here and coaching the guys.

Lars Lindgren

And he was always out there on the ice practicing after I was through. He's always been a part of hockey or, I guess, hockey's always been a part of him.

Mike Conroy

He's looking pretty big now. He's definitely ready to play hockey.

Rob Scuderi

What a huge game, just to play the USA, the powerhouse of baseball. We can play baseball, too. We're not just a hockey country.

Adam Stern

We want to be in the playoffs and we've got to win these games. It's playoff hockey and it feels like playoff hockey.

Shean Donovan

There are a lot of Division I hockey teams that were done a couple of weeks ago.

Greg Maxey

We've given them exactly what's in the contract. It never contemplated hockey. We don't have an obligation to add hockey unless they agree to our terms.

Jeff Shell

They're a great team that can play some really good hockey. These are going to be two very big games for us.

Matt Cullen

NHL players are amazing hockey players, and you watch and go, 'It doesn't look good. They don't skate very well.

Dan Jansen

This win was big. Central hockey at state is always a big deal.

John Greicar

In hockey towns, like Boston is, the true fans are always going to come out. No question about it.

Glen Murray

My Dad used to draw boats all the time and I've found his drawings in my grandparents' attic. I found one picture he drew of hockey players.

Britani Dunbar

I'm growing as a hockey player. I was pretty young (when I first came in), and you grow as a player as you get older.

Tim Connolly

They also all go to camps today, and play field hockey year round.

Amy Lesnever

I know him, and he's a big part of our hockey club and it's going to be a big challenge.

Jaromir Jagr

He was unbelievable. When you get 55, 56 shots, you hope to win hockey games. It's a game we should've won.

Brian Sutherby

It's a beautiful building, and the game was very exciting. It was also a very knowledgable hockey crowd. And I believe that means good things in the future for this franchise.

Dave Andrews

There are former college and pro players on some of the teams. Even the first-time fan will enjoy some of the hockey this weekend.

Greg Neal

I've played a lot of hockey games, and I've never seen anything like that. It was amazing.

Pavel Kubina

The hockey game was high-spirited. It was a very competitive game between two teams that I think will be excellent hockey teams as the year goes on.

Jerry York

If the game hadn't been decided, we would have got a lot of criticism for leaving curling to go to hockey.

Terry Ludwick

We had some chances to tie the game. But ultimately, catch-up hockey is losing hockey.

Ted Donato

She's term-limited. I think for Joe Fan in this area, hockey would probably work better.

Kevin Gray

Hockey is a great sport.

Tim Hides

I got to continue my collegiate hockey career and we played against a lot of the Ivy League schools at Rensselaer.

Andrew Martin

I want to go to the Olympics and play hockey.

Britani Dunbar

They say a 2-0 lead is the worst thing in hockey. Now, I'm starting to believe them.

Yanic Perreault

Norwich is probably playing the best hockey of anybody at our level in the country.

Bill Beaney

There's nothing better in hockey than knocking the snot out of somebody, right?

John Brophy

I think the hockey is going to speak for itself.

Bryan Miller

There's a few hockey Gods up there taking care us.

Tom Vannelli

Once you become a hockey fan it's part of you. It's part of your blood.

Mark Jacobs

It's a physical game, man. Nobody's fighting a lot here, but all year, when we played physical hockey, we were at our best, hitting.

Cole Jarrett

What goes around comes around. I'm sure there'll be a puck come into his corner. That's hockey.

Kyle Wanvig

They've played some great hockey on this trip.

Mike Williamson

It was what high school hockey is all about. It was a fantastic game.

Dennis Fermoyle

I wasn't scared about the abnormality. But I was scared about not playing hockey again. That was a shock for me.

Jiri Fischer

Our motto: Pond hockey, the way nature intended it.

Fred Haberman

It's playoffs now; that doesn't really matter. We had to concentrate on getting a Hockey East championship.

Brady Leisenring

I think it's just another one of those hockey things. I'm not sure anybody can find out why it happens. It just sort of grows on its own.

Dave Maloney

It's been a life-long dream for me. But I wouldn't rule hockey out.

Arne Krogh

It means nothing for this year as far the NHL goes. Now, he can just focus on hockey.

Gm Scott Howson

Said Burns, who described a year without professional hockey as ''boring.

Kevin Burns

Roller hockey is considered a no-contact sport. There's no checking. You have to be a good skater.

Franklin Dodson

It's terrific for us and the Marquette community, which is no stranger to quality hockey. There's not a better place in the country where we fit than in Marquette.

Michael Santos

It has become one of the best rivalries in college hockey.

Billy Ryan

They're obviously an established program and they've got a great youth hockey program up there which really feeds that high school.

Steve Libert

He's been playing great hockey for us. Since he's been back, he's been really carrying us. I don't know what to say. It's disheartening.

Doug Weight

I saw them get out with full hockey bags and masks over their faces. So it was pretty obvious to me what was going on.

Dave Penney

He has represented everything in this community for hockey. He has carried this franchise on his back.

Bret Hedican

This is a premier event for hockey in general.

Mark Freeman

That was a good, old-fashioned butt-kicking by a good hockey team.

Jim Crawford

Certainly it was tough to lose, it was a great game though and I credit Amity because they played a great hockey game against us tonight.

Sal Follo

We had the momentum and everything was fitting into our plans, but then all of a sudden that bad bounce and it's a tied hockey game.

Kyle Wanvig

Dave has three interests in life. Soccer, hockey and food.

Jerry Schwartz

When you get a chance to play with him you know it's going to be creative, it's going to be fun. Nothing is better than that when you play hockey.

Shane Doan

This is one of the best experiences so far in my hockey life. The team played great in front of me.

Tuukka Rask

You win the bronze, you win the gold, you lose the silver. Every hockey player wants to go out with a win.

Jussi Jokinen

I love to play hockey so I'm just coming out to have some fun, hang with the guys and win. That's what I came here for.

Phil Kessel

We'll always support hockey.

John Cole

We're not here to lose in overtime, we're here to win hockey games.

Peter Laviolette

It was a great hockey game. It was fun for us to watch. There were two evenly matched teams, and it could have gone either way.

Gary Defina

We are absolutely delighted that Hockey Day in Canada is coming to Stephenville.

Tom O'brien

For so many people, it?s how we started playing hockey.

Fred Haberman

It's unusually complicated and it's all about the hockey.

Lise Lareau