George Vecsey Quotes

It's a Stanley Cup thing. The boys mangle one another for a series, performing all kinds of nasty tricks, then they make nice, shaking soggy hands as the teams shuffle in opposite directions.

It is no fun lining up in your own building - as the hockey players say - and touching the hands of fellow stubbly louts who have just sent you off to the proverbial cabin on the lake.

Whether you win or lose against English teams, you always feel it's been a proper contest.

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

People always let me know when their team beats the Canucks.

I'm not going to get into what you do when you win.

I had never won anything until I won my first Stanley Cup.

Once you touch that grass, you know in your head only one team is going to walk out of there with a win.

There is a battle between me and Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei. We always do our best.

There is a lot of respect for Real Madrid, but it doesn't mean we can't beat them.

The most important thing for us is winning the Stanley Cup and I want to win.

The most exciting match I ever played was the 1974 US Open final against Billie Jean King.

How ironic, to be my last game that I ever played would be against Dan in a Super Bowl. The thing I always was afraid of was playing in a Super Bowl when it was raining. I can't throw a wet ball.

You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.

Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

When I wrestled in College, my team was very good.

Winning the Stanley Cup in '99 was a dream come true. I'll never forget it.

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.

I think England will win a Test. My concern is Australia will probably win two.

War of attrition, war of wills. That's what the Stanley Cup playoffs are - more intense, more physical and more prolonged than the playoffs of any other sport.

Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner.

I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.