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“I played ice hockey obsessively for 14 years of my life.”

“I've got a hockey record, I took off my skate and tried to stab a guy, I'm the only person who ever tried that.”

Persons Funny Guy Records Comedy Hockey Skates

“He knows all the golf lingo. You know? You hit your ball, he's like "there's a golf shot. That's a golf shot." Well of course it's a golf shot; I just hit a golf ball. You don't see Gretzky skating around going "there's a hockey shot, that's a hockey shot."”

Knows Wells Humor Funny Courses Comedy Shots Balls Golf Hockey Skating Golf Ball Gretzky

Author:Bill Engvall

“There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you make a mistake and you give up a run or some points. In these two sports, if you make a mistake, it could cost you your life.”

Ifs Giving Two Running Sports Mistake Football Cost Basketball Giving Up Baseball Rate Exception Hockey Mainstream Motor Rodeo Fatality

Author:Don Andrews

“They're happy to be Siamese twins. They feel blessed. But the rest of us have to go through the world alone. And they don't. And because they have this great attitude, they have a lot of friends. They were the kings of the prom. You know, they were in the state championship hockey team. You know, they're the goalie. And it's just they're a couple of winners who happen to be Siamese twins.”

Knows World Feels States Happens Attitude Team Couple Kings Blessed Winner Hockey Twins Championship Prom Lots Of Friends Great Attitude Goalies Hockey Team

Author:Peter Farrelly

“For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.”

Knows Years Care School Three Next High School Take Care Ice Hockey Three Years Graduates Ice Hockey Graduating High School

Author:Barbara Mandrell

“I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.”

Reason Play Enjoy Hockey

Author:Brendan Fehr

“Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I mentioned how frequently the team was scoring. 'You're listening to the highlights,' Royko observed.”

Knows Funny Night Goal Team Listening Winter Radio Tiny Bars Hockey Mike Nhl Highlights Winter Night Blackhawks

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition

“My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.”

Years Use Might Jobs Games Sports Hockey Corny Expertise

Author:Bobby Hull

“It was a fun ride. I've enjoyed my time on the ice and I've enjoyed more and more people getting interested in the game of hockey.”

People Games Fun Ice Enjoyed My Time Hockey Ice Hockey

Author:Ron Francis

“Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.”

Six Ice Shakes Chocolate Hockey One Time Milk Cream Ice Cream Ice Hockey Undoing Chocolate Milk

Author:Kate Smith

“The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.”

Culture Storm Ice Hockey Vigorous Other Cultures Ice Hockey Ice Storm

Author:Rick Moody

“At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).”

Ends Study Groups Team Projects Rings Ice Hockey Supplies Ice Hockey Cooling Study Group

Author:Simon van der Meer

“Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast.”

Has Beens Country Reality Energy Ice Concentration Hockey Exposed Harsh Coast Hurricanes Skating Katrina Ice Hockey Hurricane Katrina Harsh Reality Skating On Thin Ice

Author:Pete Domenici

“I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.”

Ifs I Can Goes On Ice Worried Hockey Concrete Skates Ice Hockey

Author:Clara Hughes

“And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.”

Real Real Life Ice Hockey Skates Ice Hockey

Author:Julie Benz

“Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.”

Mind Different Running Certain Race Minutes Aspect Ice Hockey Going Out Ice Hockey Different Races

Author:Eric Heiden

“When I'm able to see the ice ahead of time when I get the puck, I'm able to make some pretty good plays.”

Play Able Sports Ice Hockey Ice Hockey Puck Ahead Of Time

Author:Mario Lemieux

“A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.”

Age Women Twenties Hot Aging Warm Actresses Ice Thirty Forty Hockey Warmth Ice Hockey Hotness

Author:Gina Lollobrigida

“Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.”

Bigs Age Lost Animal Sea Land Ocean Ice Hockey Extinction Ice Hockey Ice Age

Author:Robert T. Bakker

“Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.”

Giving Feels Fire Ice Hockey Cake Ice Hockey

Author:Ethel Merman

“Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.”

Men Wells Tough Ice Hockey Ice Hockey

Author:Ice T

“Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.”

Mirrors Admire Ice Hockey Ice Hockey

Author:Paul Morand

“Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor.”

Thinking Guy Actors Ice Hockey Rapper Cubes Ice Hockey

Author:Anthony Anderson

“You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.”

Ifs I Can Shows Sticks Ice Hockey Cream Show Me Ice Cream Ice Hockey

Author:O. Winston Link

“It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.”

Way Firsts Age Levels Cases Ice Hockey Carbon Temperature Carbon Dioxide Ice Hockey Ice Age

Author:Piers Corbyn

“If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.”

Ifs Currents Ice Hockey Ice Hockey Greenland

Author:Jay Inslee

“Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.”

Concentration Hockey Gifted

Author:Wayne Gretzky

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

Player Wonderful Hockey Performers Mary Hockey Player Great Hockey

Author:Jamie Farr

“I grew up in Michigan, so I played hockey, football and basketball. I played a little bit of lacrosse, too. My brother played more lacrosse and ran track.”

Littles Bits Football Brother Grew Basketball Little Bit Grew Up Track Ran My Brother Hockey Michigan Lacrosse

Author:Steven Yeun

“Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey - let's face it, true Canadian - fan. I've always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I'm not crazy about hockey - but love it!”

Sports Crazy Disappointment Hockey Skateboarding

Author:Dustin Milligan

“If somebody asked me to come up with a mental image of my hockey career, there is absolutely no doubt I would be wearing the uniform of the Vancouver Canucks in it.”

Ifs Would Be Careers Doubt Come Up No Doubt Hockey Uniforms Vancouver

Author:Trevor Linden

“We've played with a lot of confidence and that's been the key so far. Hopefully, we can take more confidence into the playoffs.”

Keys Confidence Hopefully Hockey Playoffs

Author:Teemu Selanne

“I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court. . . But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism.”

Source: Peter Burwash's Vegetarian Primer

“To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.”

Long Play Fun Sports Leadership Hockey Simply Love

Author:Gordie Howe

“There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.”

Years Long Three Sports Months Six Long Time Finals Cups Canada Hockey 80s Playing Hockey

Author:Mark Messier

“My wife tells me one day, 'I think you love baseball more than me.' I say, 'Well, I guess that's true, but hey, I love you more than football and hockey.'”

Thinking Wells Wife Love You Football One Day Baseball My Wife Hey Hockey Love You More Baseball Love I Love You More

Author:Tommy Lasorda

“Not to mention our former tag team champions lost their titles after my good friend Christian was hit in the genitals with a hockey stick by a midgit! I mean enough is enough”

Mean Enough Christian Lost Team Sticks Former Titles Champion Hockey Wwe Good Friend Tag Enough Is Enough Hockey Sticks

Author:Kurt Angle

“The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that passion is the most important part. It's not skills or talent or any of that stuff.”

Trying I Can Important Different Matter Remember Passion Stuff Parent Growing Up Growing Talent Skills No Matter What Different Things Hockey

Author:Sidney Crosby

“Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work.”

Hard Success Work Talent Hard Work Succeed Hockey Success In Life Key To Success Road To Success Recipe For Success Motivational Success Hard Work Pays Off

Author:Jean Beliveau

“It's been a good hockey life for me anyway.”

Hockey Good Hockey

Author:Peter Forsberg

“Representing Canada as a hockey player is always a tremendous honor, which also comes with a lot of responsibility. Being able to compete and win a gold medal on our home soil made it a once in a lifetime experience. Capping off the best ever performance by not only the Canadian athletes, but also Vancouver and all Canadians, made for an amazing Olympic experience.”

“It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.”

Giving Football Son Dad Basketball Bird Okay Sticks Instance Tennis Hockey Wayne Larry Montana Gloria Gretzky Hockey Sticks

Author:Jimmy Connors

“It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.”

Kind Bigs Political Girl Socialism Hockey Pants

Book:A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays

Source: A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays

“If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.”

Ifs Want Has Beens I Can Can Do Player What You Want Hockey Hockey Player

Author:Gordie Howe

“When it comes to hockey, it's been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level.”

Years Kids Levels Blood Coaching Hockey

Author:Mario Lemieux

“Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.”

Want Wanted Games Grows Sports Growing Up Player One Day Six Seven Hockey Nhl Montreal Hockey Player

Author:Mario Lemieux

“Of course, my family has been a big reason for me to come back, especially my son who loves the game of hockey - he was a big reason for me coming back.”

Has Beens Reason Bigs Courses Games Sports Son My Family My Son Hockey Coming Back

Author:Mario Lemieux

“Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.”

Play Bigs Boys Figures Hockey Chicago Skating Figure Skating

Author:Joan Cusack

“The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys.”

Guy Fighting House Boys Taught Grew Dad Grew Up Tough Raised My Dad Connected Hockey Tough Guy

Author:Jay Baruchel

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