Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.
J. J. Watt
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When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey.
Christian Cota
HockeyLovedPushYouKindSkating
The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
Gary Bettman
HockeyCanadaAlwaysUsMarketBeen
Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry.
Brett Hull
ToughHockeyThinkSometimesCry
I am very passionate about Indian hockey.
Gautam Gambhir
I AmHockeyPassionateIndianVery
Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
Bobby Orr
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Where most kids play stickball and hockey, I'd walk down the streets with two sets of boxing gloves and knock on my friend's door and see if he wanted to box. There were boxing gyms on every corner.
Eddie Alvarez
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I had been pulling my groins in college a lot and missed my whole freshman year of college because of groin pulls. It was chronic, and I couldn't figure it out. I went to the doctor, and he told me I had hip dysplasia. So I knew my hockey days were sorta limited at that point.
Wyatt Russell
CollegeMeDoctorHockeyYearOut
I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.
Peter Berg
FootballPeopleHockeyBoxingWay
I'm awful at hockey.
Seann William Scott
HockeyAwful
My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!
Norm MacDonald
FearHockeyIceCanadaPlayWant
I know that meeting a black woman with a love for hockey is a bit like stumbling upon a unicorn in the woods... or a unicorn anywhere. I'm sure it'd be just as surreal finding a unicorn in downtown Chicago. But here I am.
Retta
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I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.
Mark Messier
MindGameHockeyThinkYouKnow
No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
Liev Schreiber
PeopleHockeyIceUpWhoPlayed
Much more a skiing family than a hockey family, my dad wasn't a big fan of the arenas early in the morning on the weekends.
Justin Trudeau
FamilyMorningSkiingHockeyEarly
The message growth rate in Brazil - it's not like a hockey stick: it's like a vertical line.
Jan Koum
GrowthHockeyLineBrazilStick
Sometimes it just feels like the only thing you do is play hockey and eat.
Henrik Lundqvist
HockeyYouPlaySometimesEatJust
I know there are sort of misnomers that women's hockey isn't as physical or fast as the guys, but women's hockey is very dynamic and tactful in its own ways. It's just as respectable of a sport as any male counterpart.
Hilary Knight
WomenHockeyFastKnowOwnDynamic
I was very into football in my early teens and spent six months with Aston Villa, but I never really got further than having trials. I'm also into ice hockey.
Greg Rutherford
FootballHockeyIceEarlyTrials
I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself.
George Vecsey
LoveHistoryRespectGameHockey
You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.
Joe Sakic
CommunityTeamHockeyUps And Downs
Hockey historians say the handshake dates to English settlers in Canada, who preached an upper-class version of sportsmanship in the 19th century. Soon, tough kids in urban and prairie rinks began imitating imagined dukes and earls of the old country.
ToughHockeyCountryCanadaSayOld
The excitement you can get in classical concert is as big, in a different sense, as you can get when you go to the ice hockey or baseball game.
Andris Nelsons
BaseballGameHockeyIceYouGo
My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.
Eliza Coupe
TimeSchoolMeTeamHockeyBox
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