Forget about style; worry about results. – Bobby Orr
- Every day is a great day for hockey. – Mario Lemieux
- Hockey is a tough game. – Bobby Orr
- You’ve got to love what you’re doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time. – Gordie Howe
- When you’re on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick. – Steve Yzerman
- We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor. – Bobby Clarke
- Hockey is a game of one-on-one battles. – Mark Messier
- In Canada, you’re not a hockey player until you’ve lost some teeth. – Andy Bathgate
- I played with a lot of great players before. They’re all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well. – Mark Messier
- The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it. – Wayne Gretzky
- My father used to tell me the game is not privileged to have you, you’re privileged to have hockey. – Paul Coffey
- Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire. – Fred Shero
- How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo? – Jacques Plante
- I’m not dumb enough to be a goalie. – Brett Hull
- I always tell Bobby he was up in the air so long that I had had time to shower and change before he hit the ice. – Glen Hall (on letting in The Goal by Bobby Orr)
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