quotations about hockey
The purest hockey is played on a big lake that froze all on its own, swept clean as a wineglass by the wind, and you just happened to be driving by.
STEPHEN SMITH
Puckstruck
A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.
JIMMY CANNON
attributed, Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Sporting Quotations
I exchanged my flannel shirt for a Rangers jersey and zapped the television on. Probably I should make more phone calls, but the Rangers were playing and priorities were priorities.
JANET EVANOVICH
Three to Get Deadly
Hockey is like a disease, you can't really shake it.
KEN WREGGET
attributed, Chicken Soup for the Soul: O Canada
At some point the sticks came into play, which is to say that when players got irked, annoyed, angry, or blinded by vengeance, they might as well choose to use them for weapons. This was frowned upon at the time, though maybe not as much as now.
STEPHEN SMITH
Puckstruck