Hockey Legend Quotes Napkins - Case

"There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that." - Bobby Orr

"The three important elements in hockey are the forecheck, the backcheck, and the paycheck." - Gilbert Perreault

"All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity." - Gordie Howe

"It's been said that, while growing up, I ate meals with my skates on. It's true." - Gordie Howe

"How would you like a job where, if you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo." - Jacques Plante

"Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work." - Jean Beliveau

"I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that
don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching." - Patrick Roy

"High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference...everything else is just figure skating." - Scotty Bowman

"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be." - Wayne Gretzky

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky

"Sometimes people ask, Are hockey fights real?' I say, If they weren't, I'd get in more of them." - Wayne Gretzky

"Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical." - Wayne Gretzky

"Great moments are born from great opportunity." - Herb Brooks

"When you pull on that jersey, the name on the front is a lot more important than the name on the back." - Herb Brooks

"When you win, say nothing, when you lose say less." - Wayne Gretzky

"When you're young, you don't realize the sacrifices that people are making for you." - Bobby Orr

"The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day." - Wayne Gretzky

"To win the game is great. To play the game is greater. To love the game is greatest of all." - Bob O'Connor

"Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records." - Bob Plager

"Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept." - Doug Larson

"A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another." - Jimmy Cannon

"When we've got the puck, they can't score." - Paul Coffey

"A fast body–contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet." - Paul Gallico

"200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series." - Steve Rushin

"Hockey is the only place where a good fight' is considered a great game." - Unknown