Quotes About Passion

I've been playing hockey since I was five years old. It's a part of my life.

I hated everybody I played against, and they hated me. That's the way hockey should be played.

Hockey is my passion, and I cannot live without it.

My only ultimate aim is to bring back the lost glory of Indian hockey.

Hockey's filled with great people, and it's a great sport, and I encourage a lot of people to play it because of the relationships that you make in hockey.

There's a time and a place when it needs to be all about hockey. I don't think that's 24 hours a day, seven days a week. How you choose to spend that time when it's not all about hockey is completely up to you.

It's not a conscious thing for me. But whenever I have the opportunity to bring it, I want to give more than the guy before me. Hockey. Off-ice stuff. Just life in general.

I love hockey, and I go to a lot of the games.

Halifax is a big hockey city. Everyone loves the game here and really enjoys anyone who has had success.

Hockey is my first love, and I devote most of my time to hockey only. But if I get time, I won't mind working in films, too.

I've been playing hockey since I was two-and-a-half, three years old.

There wasn't a day when I felt like hockey was work. I still don't feel that way.

Obviously as a kid you collect hockey cards.

I remember starting hockey at age 7 and going to my first tryout and dreaming about how great it would be, and it's been even better. These 20 years in the NHL, it's been better.

It's kind of funny the way it happened - the way I became a goalie. I was playing forward on this one team when I was little, and there was another team that needed a backup goalie. I mean, to me it just meant a chance to play more hockey, so I was all for it.

The thing about hockey for me is I'm really competitive and I like to have fun.

Hockey is just a game.

Hockey is the dream of all Swedes. They get the girls.

Where I grew up, hockey was the sport that 90 per cent of black kids at school played.

I played hockey with the best of them.

It was either football or hockey. I chose football, and I think it's worked out OK so far.

Being a ballet dancer isn't cool. Football, boxing, hockey... they're cool. And you make more money.

I grew up in a hockey town.

I'm just really passionate about the game of hockey. It's all I know and I love it.