Hockey Culture Quotes

I've seen 48 Stanley Cups in my life. I was about six or seven when I started going to games with my dad.

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

For good reasons, there are no ties during the Stanley Cup season. Somebody needs to win so the lads can get out to their cottages on the lakes, where all hockey players spend their summers, or so I have been told.

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

If you are not playing for the Stanley Cup at the end of the year, what's the point? If you don't win, you may as well not make the playoffs, because you are loser just like everyone else.

A different type of human has to play that sport. Hockey players keep fighting - nobody cares what's wrong with you, as long as you have one foot to skate on, you keep playing.

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

A nontraditional hockey market is turning into more of a traditional market. We're now a fabric of Nashville.

Kids don't fight in minor hockey anymore. There's very few fights in junior and college hockey. So growing up, all these guys are not fighting.

Hockey historians say the handshake dates to English settlers in Canada, who preached an upper-class version of sportsmanship in the 19th century. Soon, tough kids in urban and prairie rinks began imitating imagined dukes and earls of the old country.

I was impressed all my life. Because of the Montreal Canadiens' past, it means a lot because it was a team I cherished as a kid. It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be.

In the past, goalies weren't even part of the team. They had their own dressing room. They didn't speak with the other team members. They were lone warriors.

I am an arena creature - by birth, I think. Most of my life has been spent as a rink rat.

I know hockey is growing in the U.S., and it's becoming more popular, but anything to get the game out there and see how we view it. We view it as the best game in the world.

Hockey is the dream of all Swedes. They get the girls.

Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough city thing is fine. Its always had a reputation as that. ... You know, Gordie Howe, when I was watching hockey, was the toughest guy in the league playing for the Red Wings. He represented that tough aura.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

I grew up in a city just outside of Edmonton, St. Albert. So I watched NHL games with my grandpa. I watched a lot of games, back then it was called the Smythe Division, and it was just Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Winnipeg.

I grew up such a fan. It was my life. Everything I did was hockey related and everything I have is because of hockey and the NHL.

It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.

That's what they hired me to do in Washington, change a little bit of the culture, try to win a Stanley Cup.

As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.

I might have some quibbles with the way the game is played today, but at its core, I know that hockey will always be hockey no matter what year the calendar reads.