Hockey Quotes

Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.

The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.

I would be surprised if there weren't some owners who didn't want to get a deal done right now and get back to playing hockey.

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

Hockey is the original extreme sport.

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

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

I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.

You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

When you think of Canada, you think of hockey and you think of Wayne Gretzky.

I feel honored and privileged to have represented the USA program over the past 16 years. USA Hockey will always be a part of me and I will cherish the experiences and memories with this team.

The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.

It's odd, that's why I don't like telling people I played field hockey. It's real big in Australia for guys. But I say I played in America, and everybody goes, 'Oh, you girl!'

People on the streets are ready for hockey.

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

Playing hockey, there were a lot of guys bigger than me, so I knew I was going to get hit and have to deal with it. Gotta hit back.

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.

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.

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

It was a fun ride. I've enjoyed my time on the ice and I've enjoyed more and more people getting interested in the game of hockey.

That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would play slow motion tackle football. We would play hockey, but we wouldn't skate. We just made things up. I loved doing that.

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

I had a hard time with that hockey. I hadn't grown up skating, so that was my biggest challenge. We worked on it and worked on it. But then when we first shot it, it was so hard for me.