Hockey Strategy Quotes

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

Hockey is the only thing that I'm not good at that I love.

The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven't been skating as a kid it's impossible to play - and I wasn't a skater.

I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.

Hockey is my life, you know. If I do not play hockey, I do not know what I do.

If you play hockey, you might as well win.

Whether somebody is really competent - whether he has a good hockey mind, whether he's a good person to lead a hockey club - is something determined over a long period of time, not one tournament.

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.

I don't just want to be a drag-flicker. I want to be become a complete hockey player.

Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime.

You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable... they've even taken fighting out of the game, so there's no more of those big huge guys who just fight.

Understand the "Gretzky Factor": Cultivate an instinct, a "touch", call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the "puck" is now and where it will be soon.

Hockey is a tough game.

Usually when you play a team, you want to focus on one line. Pittsburgh is the only team where you have to focus on one player [Mario Lemieux]. When he's coming toward you, all you see is him.

It was a fun ride. I've enjoyed my time on the ice and I've enjoyed more and more people getting interested in the game of hockey.

I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.

The scoops and laps are something I've always had. The timing of the shots is the important part. You can't use it when it's reckless, you've to use it at the right time. Using the crease is something I've consciously worked on.

Every day, I do hockey-related stuff all morning.

Every time I have a chance I'm going to make a pass to one of my players in practice. Every time I have a chance I'm going to clear the puck just to see how far I'm going to be able to shoot it.

I like to play the puck. I like to be creative a little bit around my net, and now it's been taken away.

The players don't play the position game as much as we used to play. A lot of young guys go up and down, shoot the puck, go for the rebounds. You're getting tired quicker because the body has to react where the puck is going to go. You cannot read it, because you don't have the puck on your stick.

My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.

It was either football or hockey. I chose football, and I think it's worked out OK so far.

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.

In the K.H.L., you're even more patient at your position because the rink is so big, you cannot play that way.