Jeremy Roenick Quotes

Jeremy Roenick gives sharp, funny commentary on sports, work and media.

17 quotes

1. It's a good thing you're gonna get that truck. The bad thing is you're gonna be smiling all day on TV and I don't think that that's pretty.

2. We're going to try to make it better for everybody, period, end of subject. And if you don't realize that, then don't come. We don't want you at the rink, we don't want you in the stadium, we don't want you to watch hockey... I say personally, to everybody who called us 'spoiled,' you guys are just jealous ... we have tried so, so hard to get this game back on the ice.

3. Everybody out there who calls us spoiled because we play 'a game', they can kiss my ass. They can all kiss my ass.

4. I know nobody on that team has more points in the National Hockey League than me. So if they want to go that way, good luck... [t]o not have the opportunity to go back one more time and try and win the gold is obviously, in my opinion, very disrespectful.

5. Sexy Motha Fu...

6. We can no longer ignore the stupidity of the hits that are still happening today despite the fact that the players know the concussion aspect is such a big part of the game and sports in general.

7. Football, you can go out and buy a football and play it in your backyard. Basketball, you can go out and play it in the schoolyard or in your driveway. Baseball, you get a glove and a bat and a ball and you go out and play in the neighborhood. You can't do that in hockey.

8. Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person.

9. I'm obviously into the sports. The NFL games and the NHL games.

10. My only goal is to win the Stanley Cup and do what I have to to win that.

11. It's not my fault Snow didn't have any other options coming out of high school. If going to college gets you a career backup goaltender job, and my route gets you a thousand points and a thousand games, and compare the two contracts, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out whose decision was better.

12. As a professional athlete, there aren't too many things as gratifying as being on the front of a box. Whether it be a cereal box or a game box. It's very gratifying.

13. I think the deal is not great for the players. It is definitely an owner-friendly deal.

14. You can't just go outside and play hockey. It's more of an expensive sport.

15. When I get home, I'm not very happy. Especially when I didn't do something to help the cause.

16. The competitiveness, playing in front of 18-19,000 people every single night, people asking for my autograph, getting recognized, being able to do something like this with Sega and being on the front of a box, and being involved in video games, and listening to movies where they reference my name like in Swingers. All these things they make life so exciting, you don't know what to expect next.

17. They just love to complain about me because I'm an American who gets more press than their Canadian players.