Ken Dryden famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There are two types of forwards. Scorers and bangers. Scorers score and bangers bang.
-- Ken Dryden

#Hockey #Two #Bangs
A goalies job is to stop pucks,.... Well yeah, thats part of it, but you know what else is?... Youre trying to deliver a message to your team that things are OK back here. This end of the ice is pretty well cared for. You take it now and go. Go! Feel the freedom in order to feel that dynamic, creative, offensive player and go out and score....That was my job. And it was to try to deliver a feeling.
-- Ken Dryden

#Jobs #Team #Player
Because the demands on the goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is himself. Not a puck, not a opponent, not a quirk of size or style. The stress and anxiety he feels when he plays, the fear of failing, the fear of being embarrassed, the fear of being physically hurt, all symptoms of his position, in constant ebb and flow, but never disappearing. The successful goalie understands these neuroses, accept them, and put them under control. The unsuccessful goalie is distracted by them, his mind in knots. His body quickly follows.
-- Ken Dryden

#Hurt #Stress #Mean
It was the kind of light blow that is exchanged without notice or consequence hundreds of times in a game.
-- Ken Dryden

#Blow #Light #Nhl
Game in, game out, year in, year out, just a kid cruising the ice looking to cause trouble - a wicked wristshot for a goal, a crushing bodycheck, a fight - opponents' bodies littered on the ice, fans out of their seats, the place in an uproar, and Wendel, no expression on his face, looking around wondering what the commotion was about.
-- Ken Dryden

#Crush #Kids #Fighting
In an athlete, it is not the legs that go first
-- Ken Dryden

#Athlete #Legs #Firsts
Oh captain, my captain, bon voyage.
-- Ken Dryden

#Voyages #Captains
The model for an NHL without fighting is right there in front of us. The [playoffs are] the time of year that fans love best; when the best hockey is played... [The] enforcers don't play. Even mini-enforcers... remain on the bench. Teams and coaches can't afford anything stupid and unpredictable... With no one to fight back for them, players go harder into the corners, more determinedly to the front of the net. If they want to fire up the crowd and their teammates, they have to do it themselves. And in the playoffs, they do.
-- Ken Dryden

#Inspirational #Motivational #Team
The most obvious and easiest answer if you've got a head injury is a better helmet. The problem is there's no evidence that it is the answer. I've watched a couple equipment manufacturers make presentations. They're very slick. They're very well done. And they usually start with the same disclaimer: there is no evidence that helmets reduce the frequency of concussions. You come away going "isn't this amazing?" It's so amazing you forget the opening line, that it doesn't do anything. It has no impact on concussions.
-- Ken Dryden

#Couple #Done #Forget

The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. ... That's a pretty scary thought.
We're trying to work on Sami to get through that and shoot the puck. MacInnis shot the puck all the time. If there was a fool who wanted to stand in front and break an ankle, tough luck.
But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.
In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.
What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.
The Big Bang banged, and for some reason weâ€™re here. And thatâ€™s astonishing. And that we can understand that, thatâ€™s the most astonishing.
It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train.

Ken Dryden famous quotes

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