Jimmy Fallon Quotes

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

Over the weekend, Vladimir Putin scored eight goals during a hockey game. It happened just after he had the goalie executed.

I saw a hockey game where they threw the puck aside and just started fighting. I saw that, and I'm like, 'So I'm the thug?'

Mamas, don't let your sons grow up to be Cowboys... or Oilers.

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected.

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.

If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.

And that's why, you know, it's players like Randy Moss that unfortunately put a stain on the entire league.

I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.

The Harding/Kerrigan saga was one of the first feeding-frenzy stories that would forever change news coverage.

If you lose a race or game in hockey, you lose a game. That's it. If you lose a fight you might lose part of your brain because of the damage.

Deflategate. I mean it's kind of idiotic in one way. On the other hand, look how totally obsessed we are with the fact that the New England Patriots may have taken, I don't know, a half-pound or a pound square inch of air pressure out of the footballs. We love it.

I'll fight every weekend - hell yeah.

I've been in a position where I've been barely doing any damage, and the ref stopped it. It's just sport.

Where most kids play stickball and hockey, I'd walk down the streets with two sets of boxing gloves and knock on my friend's door and see if he wanted to box. There were boxing gyms on every corner.

When I played, you had a lot of enforcers. You would go to the hole, get knocked down, and the referee would look at you and say, 'Get stronger, get up, and keep playing.'

Seriously, I faced a lot of anti-Semitism playing hockey as a kid. It motivated me to play well and to punch everyone who was anti-Semitic. I was taunted and called names. I'd either beat them with a goal or with my fists.

No one wants to be the next Pete Rose.

You can't be in the locker room reading 'League of Denial.'

I might be the first fighter who has ever been suspended after retirement.

People in Toronto love to watch fights.

Ben Roethlisberger is Tim Tebow minus Jesus.

The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.

I can't remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in baseball now than they do in hockey.