Hockey Quotes
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I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'
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I grew up playing hockey and baseball, so I wish I had time to get back into it, but living in L.A. and North Carolina, you have to take advantage of the golf.
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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.
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I'm so busy right now, it's the beginning of the hockey season for my kids.
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Hockey is an art. It requires speed, precision, and strength like other sports, but it also demands an extraordinary intelligence to develop a logical sequence of movements, a technique which is smooth, graceful and in rhythm with the rest of the game.
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This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.
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We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff'.
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Whether somebody is really competent - whether he has a good hockey mind, whether he's a good person to lead a hockey club - is something determined over a long period of time, not one tournament.
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My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.
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It was the names of these four men that reminded me why playing for the Blues is as good as it gets in the National Hockey League.
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For us [hockey] is an opportunity, myself and my brothers have an opportunity to do something special.
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What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet.
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You want it? Work for it.
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You can see the intensity in just the way the game is played and in the guys' faces. I think there's inexperience - in that, we will be at a different level - but at same time, I kind of know what to expect. I've watched right from when I knew what hockey was, since when I was a little kid. I grew up watching the league all the time, and the playoffs. There are games every night of the week, so I loved it. Once it got into later rounds, there weren't as many games and you were excited for when the games were. It was a lot of fun.
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It took me a long time to adapt to the West Coast. I lived eight years in New York before California and might have gone back. Then I discovered surfing. It's the California equivalent of ice hockey, I guess. It gave me a real sense of place.
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The problem is my movie career is hindering my hockey schedule.
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People on the streets are ready for hockey.
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We got off to a rough start in New York where I wasn't playing too much. Going to Washington I was having fun playing hockey again but got hurt. I got traded to L.A. and everything was a downward spiral.
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I played hockey in the winter, and then I would play golf in the summer. But I always knew I'd be a golfer.
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Hockey's my favorite sport.
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Canadian hockey players always find a way to get along.
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There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.
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Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.
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The league is sending a clear-cut message: We want a great brand of hockey, we want it to be exciting. I think we've reached that goal so far in the season and incidents where there will be an intent to injure or there will be an injury, there will be a price to play.
