Quotes About Hockey

Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.

Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

I have six brothers and one sister. I grew up playing ice hockey, a total tomboy, and that's what I thought I was going to do - be an ice-hockey player.

He would wear the ornery, stick-wielding Penguin on his chest and carry the expectations for saving hockey on his shoulders.

in the foothills of the Pocono Mountains, home of the Baby Penguins, their American Hockey League farm team.

In the second period, he hit the crossbar, and the fans chanted in singsong, "Overrated!" and "Parise's better!

He grew up never letting his mother wash his hockey equipment, preferring instead to air it outdoors, because he loved the smell so much.

His description included multiple mentions of "synergies," "dynamics," "analytics," "enhanced reality," and "empiricals." It took every ounce of my self-control to avoid laughing when he started talking about something called the "hockey stick profit curve.

Growing up, I didn't know very much about my heritage and the Soviet Union and things of that nature. But when I saw the Soviet Union play hockey for the first time, to me, it was profound.

I don't want to get into being too hockey centered, but I just felt like the late 70's and 80's into the 90's was the right time period to tell the story.

Mouth guard. And I think we'll start you in goal. Goal sounded like a special job. I didn't want a special job, unless that special job involved sitting on the side under a pile of blankets.

I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It's what I love the most.

I love to play for Pittsburgh. If they can't afford me, then I'd love to play in L.A. or New York.

When it comes to hockey, it's been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level.

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

At the end of the day, it is hockey. It's the same game, the rules don't change. It's the same hockey game I've been playing since I was 2 years old. I think you can kind of rely on that.

The OHL compared to the NHL playoffs, I don't think they really compare. You can't really rely on that experience.

I didn't know that I'd like it this much, coaching both boys and coming out all the time and seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice.

Growing up in Finland, ice hockey was the main sport. But I never played that. I went with footy. I never had any other hobbies.

No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.

I always wanted to play ice hockey back in Australia, I'm not sure why, but we didn't have any ice where I lived. It was very hot - a coastal town.

Even in Canada, I never even played ice hockey. I never skated in my life; I always did rollerblade street hockey.

People don't know how fantastic women's ice hockey is. People don't know how fantastic hockey is in general.

When I was 5, I'm like,' I'm doing this,' whether there's women's ice hockey, men's ice hockey, whatever it was in my future.