Hockey Quotes

It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.

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

Hockey is the original extreme sport.

I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.

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 love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.

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.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

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.

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

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 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.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.