Quotes on Nhl

I look at it as a challenge, ... I'm not going to put too much added pressure on myself. I want to play in the NHL, and after that [happens], I can worry about things beyond that.

Do everything you need to do to keep the passion alive and never forget that it is a privilege to do what you love.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone.

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.

I dreamed of being an NHLer the first day I played. Sometimes the other kids would say there are not many black players in the N.H.L. So I really followed as many black players as I could.

People would say, 'Girls don't play hockey. Girls don't skate.' I would say, 'Watch this.'

Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again?

We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games.

I'm very proud of our NHL players. I think they all handle themselves extremely well and they all work really hard.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

It's kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL

Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be.

Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

I started as a fourth-line fighter, went to being a third-line centre, then a second-line winger and a first-line centre. I've played every role there is, and the only thing that matters is helping the team win.

Rocket had that mean look on, every game we played. He was 100 percent hockey. He could hate with the best of them.

Every day is a great day for hockey.