I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.
Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.
Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.
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.
In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the sport is. But in hockey, you have the boards. I just couldn't say which is more physical.
I think the big thing is you really have one chance to do this... to play hockey for a living, you have one chance at your career, and you have to take full advantage of it.
The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.
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 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 would say it is important to have a good education, as hockey is a career that does not last many years, and you need to be prepared for this.
Every day is a great day for hockey.
I'd been playing everything and decided that this was something I maybe wanted to make a career out of. I knew where some companies were, but I saw the name 'Bethesda, Maryland' on 'Wayne Gretzky Hockey 3.'
When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.
When you think of Canada, you think of hockey and you think of Wayne Gretzky.
The message growth rate in Brazil - it's not like a hockey stick: it's like a vertical line.
In hockey, sometimes a shift can go for a minute and a half, full out.
I've been up in the Arctic Circle where they have hockey rinks that don't have any heating. So it's - 40 C outside, it's - 55 inside. Or there's a social centre but no budget for anybody to run any programs. Stuff we wouldn't accept in Winnipeg, but we let it go on and on and on.
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.
Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
