Penalty Box Quotes

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

It doesn't matter whether I'm in an NHL arena, at a local rink, or on a sheet of ice in the middle of a baseball stadium: when I'm around the game, I feel at home.

The best place to defend is in the opposition penalty box.

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

Hockey's fun.

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

Hockey's my favorite sport.

I am a striker, a goalscorer. That is my art.

Sidney Crosby, our greatest player, I don't want to see Sidney Crosby in the penalty box. I don't want to see Sidney Crosby hurt. I want to see Sidney Crosby play.

You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.

Staying out of the penalty box will really help.

I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is unbelievable. His stats are incredible. Strikes at goal, attempts on goal, raids into the penalty box, headers. It is all there. Absolutely astounding.

Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy.

In any other context, 'icing' is a great and exciting word: The proverbial icing on the cake, for instance, is a bonus - a wonderful thing on top of another wonderful thing. But in hockey, icing merely results in the referee's raising his right hand, as if swearing an oath to the deity of downtime.

I like playing just outside of my own penalty box, the player who receives the ball and organises the game.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.

I am not as dangerous as I used to be. I am not as effective in the penalty area any more. That is something I have lost and something I have to get back. I used to score better goals, great goals. But something strange has happened.

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

I played ice hockey obsessively for 14 years of my life.

Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.

Any time you give up two shorthanded goals, you're not usually going to win.

When you are in the goal, you have to concentrate totally on the game, but in a shoot-out when the striker is walking towards the penalty spot, you remember what you have been through and see it as a chance to make the difference.

The important thing to understand, from my point of view, is if the opponents break our lines and they are attacking our box, something has gone wrong, and it is me who has to fix it. But fouls in football are normal. You have to do it sometimes.

You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.