Jeremy Roenick, "Yeah, I’m cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn’t mean I’m not a nice person."
Edmonton’s Georges Laraque about Donald Brashear after they fought three seconds into a game, "We hate each other. People assume that we respect each other because we’re black. We don’t." Brashear responds, "Georges is a young guy who doesn’t know what’s happening in the league yet. I gave him his chance. I’ll go with his again, but on my conditions, when I feel like it." In addition Laraque says of Brashear, "He’s a sissy. He talks like he’s Wayne Gretzky. I tried to get him to go, but he says the team misses him when he’s off the ice for five minutes."
The Flyers’ Keith Jones on he and Craig Berube being untouchables. "We’ve got no-trade clauses. Nobody wants us."
Carrie Esposito, daughter of Phil married Alexander Selivanov. "I tried to talk my daughter out of going with a hockey player," says Phil." But he’s a good kid. He asked me if he could marry Carrie before he asked her. I said: "You want to what?’ I thought he was just going to ask for more ice time."
Former NHL tough guy Jeff Brubaker (head coach and GM of the Jacksonville Lizard Kings): "Cold blooded hockey - It's the style of play I want to put on the ice."
"Every time a puck gets past me and I look back in my net, I say 'Oh,oh'" - Bernie Parent, when asked why he wore #00 in the WHA
"Every time I see you naked, I feel sorry for your wife" -- Jaromir Jagr to Matt Barnaby
Bobby would drive to the net injured, he would drive to the net hurt. He played that way every night. He told Bobby that he was the one who made him famous."-Derek Sanderson
"The second best thing about being hired by the Boston Bruins was that I'd finally made it as a coach in the N.H.L.. The first best thing was that I was coach of the team for which Bobby Orr was a player. Mind you I didn't say that I'd coached Bobby Orr because that would be the most presumptous thing any coach could ever say. He was the greatest hockey player I have ever seen, Gordie Howe and Wayne Gretzky included.The greatest hockey player who ever lived, Bobby Orr, and I love him. Me to Grapes."-Don Cherry
"Bobby Orr had lots of moves and speed. You had to be careful or he would make you look like a fool. Jacques was impresed how quickly he caught up to Yvan Cournoyer one night when the Habs were playing the Bruins. I didn't think the kid had that kind of speed."-Jacques Lemaire
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