Hockey Quotes

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 still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.

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.

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed.

I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was.

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

I find that I've tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the same time, I've also made it a point to increase or grow in some other area of my life. If I were just playing hockey, I would probably be done with the sport.

My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.

Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.

The greatest hockey player who ever lived: Bobby Orr, and I love him.

Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be.

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.

For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.

Of course, my family has been a big reason for me to come back, especially my son who loves the game of hockey - he was a big reason for me coming back.

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.

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

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.