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Hockey is our big sport, and if you fight in hockey you get five minutes for it, that's it. So in Canada, everyone is fighting.
Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.
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.
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.
I think that in all aspects of the game, especially in professional sports but specifically in hockey, we want to grow the game.
When he gets mad, it's like he's in another world. He'll look at you with those big eyes and they'll be going around in circles.
I was happy to ski and play a lot of ice hockey. But I've come back because I was - and am - a racing driver. This is what I do.
I would love to do a movie based on our desi sports kabbadi or hockey. I guess I can play these games and do the justice to them.
We've met a ton of pro hockey players, got to know them, our music plays in their locker rooms. We've always taken pride in that.
I grew up such a fan. It was my life. Everything I did was hockey related and everything I have is because of hockey and the NHL.
I'm probably the only guy in hockey who can win a scoring title and everybody is saying I had a bad year. I don't worry about it.
For me, it's not a struggle to go out and play hockey. Under pressure, I feel it to a certain extent... but, I'm not scared of it.
I'm on the third line. I'm a crasher. I know my role. I'm just trying to help. I'm not stupid enough to think I'm great out there.
The hockey lockout of 1994 - 1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering... and can now get down to some serious bloodshed!
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.
Not just cricket, we are doing clothing for football, hockey etc. It's basic stuff, but good designing is what I am looking to do.
We have always been taught that hockey is our national game, but it is only in general knowledge books and not on official papers.
I played hockey my whole life until my ambition outstripped my ability, which happens to most Canadians around 15 or 16 years old.
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.
How's the game changed in my 15 years in the league? Well, we used to be called hard-working players. Now we're overpaid crybabies.
They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building them.
I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available.
As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where its packed every night, theres nothing like it.
I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
I am addicted to hockey now. I've seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.
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.
In Japan, skating is like NHL hockey in Canada or baseball in the U.S., so pushing the limit is very enticing. Skating is their lives.
As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.
I can't remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in baseball now than they do in hockey.
Man is that guy ripped. I mean, I've got the washboard stomach, too. It's just that mine has about two months of laundry on top of it.
I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.
It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
I have always been interested in finding new ways to play and have looked at handball keepers and ice hockey goal-minders. It helps me.
As a kid, when the neighbors were out playing street hockey or tackle football, my friends and I were in my basement with the NES/SNES.
Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.
The great thing about hockey players is that they are able to separate the on-ice from the off-ice and not let the latter distract them.
I admire Miken's exceptional engineering capabilities and was drawn to their passion for hockey and drive to be the best in all they do.
It doesn't take long to play with those guys. They're so good, they really help you out in all areas of the game and make it easy on you.
I would make hockey movies: I would edit together Flyers games and do highlight reels of goals or fights, which I still have to this day.
Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring.
If there can be films about why hockey (and not just cricket) is cool, there can be a film or two about the virtues of honest, hard work.
The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.
The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.
Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.
Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.
I had to unlearn cricket to learn hockey. It is easier for someone who is not a sportsperson to pick up hockey. They just have to learn it.
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.
I'm a guy who wants to make a lasting impression on hockey, and if I'm going to do that, I have a lot more work to do than just one season.