Post by BIG-BAD-TONE on Aug 27, 2006 12:46:02 GMT
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Bobby Clarke: "We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor."
Jim McKenny: "Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental."
Jacques Plante: "How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?"
Brett Hull: "I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie."
Doug Larson: "Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept."
Wayne Gretzky: "You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
Gordie Howe: "American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity."
Steve Rushin: "By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of the NHL playoff series."
Jimmy Cannon: "A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another."
Stephen Leacock: "Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive."
Jim Murray: "Hockey is murder on ice."
Pierre Page: "A player must be able to skate, have hockey sense, be able to shoot - not necessarily able to score - and have drive."
Glen Sather: "You can have all the talent in the world, but if the pumper's not there, it doesn't matter."
Barclay Plager: "It's not who wins the fight that's important, it's being willing to fight. If you get challenged and renege, everyone wants to take a shot at you."
Unknown: "Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all it keeps them off the street."
Jeremy Roenick, "Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person."
Rodney Dangerfield: "I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out."
Paul Coffey: "When we've got the puck, they can't score."
Brad Park: "We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital."
Milan Gajic: "I honestly believe some would have given up their left leg to stop a shot in the third period."
Bobby Clarke: "We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor."
Jim McKenny: "Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental."
Jacques Plante: "How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?"
Brett Hull: "I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie."
Doug Larson: "Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept."
Wayne Gretzky: "You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
Gordie Howe: "American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity."
Steve Rushin: "By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of the NHL playoff series."
Jimmy Cannon: "A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another."
Stephen Leacock: "Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive."
Jim Murray: "Hockey is murder on ice."
Pierre Page: "A player must be able to skate, have hockey sense, be able to shoot - not necessarily able to score - and have drive."
Glen Sather: "You can have all the talent in the world, but if the pumper's not there, it doesn't matter."
Barclay Plager: "It's not who wins the fight that's important, it's being willing to fight. If you get challenged and renege, everyone wants to take a shot at you."
Unknown: "Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all it keeps them off the street."
Jeremy Roenick, "Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person."
Rodney Dangerfield: "I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out."
Paul Coffey: "When we've got the puck, they can't score."
Brad Park: "We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital."
Milan Gajic: "I honestly believe some would have given up their left leg to stop a shot in the third period."