2212+ famous motivational hockey quotes 2025

short motivational hockey quotes 2025

Winning means you are willing to go longer, work harder and give me than anyone else

Practice like you’ve never WON, Play like you’ve never LOST

It’s not how BIG you are, it’s how big you PLAY!

My goal is to stop yours

It takes balls to play hockey

You miss % of the shots you don’t take

It’s not about how good you are but how bad you want it

You only see obstacles when you take your eyes off the goal

A good player plays where the ball is. A great player plays where the ball is going to be

Let your mistakes make you better, not bitter

Hard work makes things look easy

There may be players better than you, but there is no excuse for anyone working harder than you!

Love this one!

Good players inspire themselves, great players inspire others

Don’t go through life without goals

Never give up on something you can’t live a day without thinking about

Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn

The only difference between you and your goal is the story that you tell yourself as to why you can’t achieve it

Everyone has the desire to win, but only champions have the desire to prepare to win

Be so good that they can’t ignore you

The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing. You miss % of the shots you don’t take – Wayne Gretzky

To succeed in hockey, you need teamwork – Henry Samueli

Sometimes you do the hard work and set the table and somebody else eats the meal – Brian Burke

The top three worst things I’ve seen in hockey? The invention of the trap. The invention of the morning skate. And the invention of the extremely ugly uniform – Brett Hull

A fast body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet – Paul Gallico

Great moments are born from great opportunities – Herb Brooks

A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can’t hit one another – Jimmy Cannon

It’s not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it’s what you put into the practice – Eric Lindros

I guarantee we’ll win tonight – Mark Messier

Why is a puck called a puck? Because dirty little bastard was taken – Martin Brodeur

How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and , people boo? – Jacques Plante

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave – win or lose – Gordie Howe

top rated motivational hockey quotes 2025

You’ve always been ‘The Great One,’ but tonight you’ve become The Greatest – Gary Bettman II

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 – Steve Rushin

People don’t know how fantastic women’s ice hockey is. People don’t know how fantastic hockey is in general – Hilary Knight

Yeah, I’m cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn’t mean I’m not a nice person – Jeremy Roenick

Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow – John Mariucci

I often look at the guys who can whistle before a game and shake my head. You’d think they didn’t have a care in the world. Me? I’m just plain miserable before every game – Glenn Hall

Hockey is murder on ice – Jim Murray

The playoffs separate the men from the boys, and we found out we have a lot of boys in our dressing room – Neil Smith

We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don’t even have to go to the hospital – Brad Park

Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive – Stephen Leacock

My dad had this thing – everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that’s all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters! – Norm MacDonald

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 – Liev Schreiber

I love hockey. Hockey is my go-to sport. It’s my jam – Alexa Bliss

Whether you’re trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, I’ve always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether it’s as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that – Sidney Crosby

I am addicted to hockey now. I’ve seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me – J. B. Smoove

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 – Steve Yzerman

To me, a hockey player has to be every sport rolled into one: ice skater, baseball player, football player, etc. It’s just incredible to watch! – Vinnie Paul

I have always been interested in finding new ways to play and have looked at handball keepers and ice hockey goal-minders. It helps me – Manuel Neuer

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

The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we’re teaching – not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values – are sinking in – Bobby Orr

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it – Emma Watson

Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be – Mario Lemieux

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick – Sarah Palin

I would be trying to play hockey with my friends, but most of the time, the coach put me on the bench. Because I was too dreamy – I was dreaming all of the time. I was super bad on the ice because I was just thinking about something else – Denis Villeneuve

As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in , signaling the opening of that year’s Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave the American men’s hockey team a chance against the world powers – Don Yaeger

My most visceral childhood memory is getting home from hockey. Much of our family time revolved around hockey, and it rains a lot in Perth, and we’d get home tired and wet in our tracksuits, and the smell I’d hold in my nose is of mother’s vegetable soup – Tim Minchin

If you’re a sports fan, it is really cool when you see the best-on-best for hockey at the Olympics – Gary Bettman

I think the big thing is you really have one chance to do this… to play hockey for a living, you have one chance at your career, and you have to take full advantage of it – Patrick Kane

I am extremely grateful to have had the opportunity to play hockey, especially when there weren’t equal opportunities as there are now. But at times, it was challenging – Hilary Knight

It is so important to me to have my time away from hockey. Obviously, hockey is my passion; I love it. But definitely for me, time away from the rink and time when my mind isn’t thinking about hockey is important – Sidney Crosby

I’m not superstitious about anything in my life – except for playoff hockey. I get really kind of sketchy and weird about it. I don’t like talking about it. I don’t like making predictions – CM Punk

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity –Gordie Howe

My teeth weren’t that good to begin with, so hopefully I can get some better ones – Duncan Keith

By the age of , the average American has witnessed , acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game of the NHL playoff series – Steve Rushin

Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they’re too tough to cry – Brett Hull

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it – Wayne Gretzky

Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental – Jim McKenny

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor – Bobby Clarke

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful – Wayne Gretzky

There are no environments where you’re only going to win, because life just isn’t like that – Bobby Orr

Hockey’s filled with great people, and it’s a great sport, and I encourage a lot of people to play it because of the relationships that you make in hockey – P.K. Subban

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be – Wayne Gretzky

Hockey should have some appeal. It’s a good game in that is full of action, very quick, and it can be high-scoring – Casey Eastham

Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice – George Vecsey

Even when you’re being safe, eight hours of choreography makes you look like you’ve been through a war. It’s hard. It’s like playing hockey for eight hours – David Leitch

famous Funny motivational Hockey Quotes

Hockey players wear numbers because you can’t always identify the body with dental records.

Hockey is figure skating in a war zone.

Four out of five dentists surveyed recommended playing hockey.

Give blood. Play hockey.

My other car is a Zamboni.

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

A fast body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

incredible quotes of hockey

You miss % of the shots you don’t take

Hockey is a tough game

Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice

Outdoor hockey is what it is all about

Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Every day is a great day for hockey - Mario Lemieux

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

I'm leaving the game of hockey with nothing but great memories

famous motivational Hockey quotes about life

The one thing I'd always wanted to do in my career is push myself out of my comfort zone - I think I'm really comfortable with being uncomfortable. So that's why I played pro men's hockey, that's why I played softball and hockey at the same time, that's why I'm not afraid to speak up - that's just who I am.

I find that I've tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the same time, I've also made it a point to increase or grow in some other area of my life. If I were just playing hockey, I would probably be done with the sport.

To win the game is great. To play the game is greater. To love the game is greatest of all.

Hockey's a funny game.You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else.You have to take pride in yourself.

The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we’re teaching – not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values – are sinking in.

When you play hockey, you don't have any fear. As soon as you step on the ice everything goes away and you're focusing on the puck and focusing on the play.

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

And to give everyone a boost, know that most pro player were not necessarily talented... as they say:

I started playing hockey late and it was unclear until the very last moment if I was talented or not. But it turned out well.

I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.