I’m a sucker for quotes…here’s some of my favorite hockey ones…
Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded – accordion-style – back to full stature, without any lasting side effect. ~Steve Rushin
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. ~Stephen Leacock
Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept. ~Doug Larson
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. ~Steve Rushin
A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can’t hit one another. ~Jimmy Cannon
Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental. ~Jim McKenny
How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo? ~Jacques Plante
Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be. ~Wayne Gretzky
Ice hockey players can walk on water. ~Author Unknown
Street hockey is great for kids. It’s energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all it keeps them off the street. ~Author Unknown
Hockey players wear numbers because you can’t always identify the body with dental records. ~Author Unknown
Hockey is figure skating in a war zone. ~Author Unknown
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but hockey is played with hand grenades and machine guns. ~John Leonard
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. ~Gordie Howe
My goal is to deny yours. ~John Stanson
When Hell freezes over, I’ll play hockey there too. ~Author Unknown
Red ice sells hockey tickets. ~Bob Stewart
I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out. ~Rodney Dangerfield
We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don’t even have to go to the hospital. ~Brad Park
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