Hockey Quotes

You've got to understand, these guys have played 20, 25 years of minor hockey, junior hockey, college hockey. And all of a sudden they're being told something completely different. It's going to take a little bit of time. - Wayne Gretzky

You've got to like a kid like that because he is able to do those things and he's so versatile for you. He becomes a very important part of what happens on the hockey team. - Bryan Murray

You've got to know there's four seconds left in the hockey game. So you can't let a guy by you. You have to have some desperation. - Jacques Martin

You're not going to play perfect hockey every night. We ended up playing a pretty good game, but we're going to have to be better down the stretch if we want to get in the playoffs. - Joffrey Lupul

You're not going to get easy, open looks against this defense. Our goals were not pretty today. That's the kind of hockey it's going to be. - Brendan Shanahan

You're never happy when you lose. It's playoff hockey. You've got to win. We'll take it. We'll use it to our advantage. We'll be ready to go on Sunday. - Dwayne Roloson

You're going to say 'what about other kids?' They get hurt in other sports but I think it would have to be hockey and I know at least five or six other guys that it would just help the families so much. - Don Cherry

You're going to have your differences in the way you practice. There are no hard feelings from our side. It's an important preseason game for us, to show we're getting better. We don't have anything against the guys that came here and practiced against us. They're not in our conference; it's over with. - Jeremy Shockey