Quotes About Hockey

It's cool that I'm 20 and am on the cover of the video game. A lot of kids play hockey, and a few get drafted, and only a few get to be on the cover. It's a great feeling.

Growing up, I ate, slept and breathed hockey. I got home from school, I shot pucks, played outdoor hockey, road hockey, go home for dinner... Remember this is pre-Internet, barely any video games, I had a Commodore Vic-20. If you weren't doing your homework, you were outside playing hockey, most likely.

Pack them into a small round mold, or form a ball and flatten it to resemble a hockey puck (or a baby Brie if you're not from Minnesota and into winter sports.)

When I stopped playing hockey and started acting, the last person I was going to ask for help was my dad. He's the king of being like, 'I don't know. It's good work if you can get it. Good luck.'

It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.

My dad introduced me to the game, gave me a stick. Since then I've had a passion for it.

When I got drafted I just wanted to play one game in the NHL. I didn't really care anything about winning.

You look at all the elite players around the League, the guys that are responsible defensively, the guys that can score at will, they kind of do it all.

One of my friends called me up and said kids in our village are playing hockey with PVC pipes. This is the change I wanted to see. Hopefully, we will be able to inspire the next generation.

If I hadn't learned to lay on a two-hander once in a while, I'd never have left Flin Flon.

If you're a Maple Leafs fan, you hate the Canadiens. I'm not a Canadiens fan at all.

Even though his sister was five years older, Jack couldn't help feeling jealous. Becca's skills were so impressive that coaches had moved her to the boys' team. Yes, Jack, often said, Becca's my sister. Yes, she plays hockey on the boys' team. For some reason, Jack usually had to give the info twice. Yes, she's my sister. Yes, she plays for the boys team.

Mason used to be one of Jack's best friends. He was a good center, but an even better winger. The boys started out in Mites together and had been on teams together ever since. Mason had Jack beat on speed, but he couldn't match Jack's stickhandling.

How can you not talk about hockey when you have a star in your house? Megan asked. Her mouth remained open in disbelief.

Hopefully I can be a good light in the hockey world and promote faith as something that's really real.

The worst part about the job is the travel, which takes you away from family and friends and important dates and hockey games and tournaments that your kids are in and things like that.

Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself.

"Cracking the Ice" scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner.

He'd spent so much time in the penalty box for fighting last season, he'd been tempted to hang a picture and maybe set up a lava lamp, it had felt so much like home

Dessert was an over baked chocolate chip cookies the size of a hockey puck and just about as tasty.

Nobody ever tells me to give them a pass or anything. My job is to score goals, and if I don't shoot the puck, I can't score goals.

The goal is too small and the goalies are too big.

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

When Bobby came into the league he was a rushing defenseman, a goal scorer and a point getter. He just opened the game up to more offence and that's the way the game is played now.