There was a time there in the mid ’80s to the ’90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there. – Mark Messier
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. – Mike Weir
Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice. – George Vecsey
In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It’s your social position; it’s everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada. – Denis Villeneuve
Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career. – Mark Messier
I’m not stereotypically Canadian. I don’t really follow hockey. I don’t feel like anything other than myself, basically. – Michael Cera
It’s not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey. – Eric Heiden
If you’re dating the quarterback and then you go out with the hockey player, you just go to the hockey games. I don’t think I’ll still go to the football games. – Nicolle Wallace
I always wanted to be known as the girl who was good at hockey rather than the girl you see in magazines. – Casey Eastham
Hockey should have some appeal. It’s a good game in that is full of action, very quick, and it can be high-scoring. – Casey Eastham
I would love to do another hockey movie. There are a lot of people in Hollywood looking for the right hockey script. – D. B. Sweeney
I played hockey in the winter, and then I would play golf in the summer. But I always knew I’d be a golfer. – David Hearn
Even in Canada, I never even played ice hockey. I never skated in my life; I always did rollerblade street hockey. – Milos Raonic
I think I’m a mama’s boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I’m a generous, impatient, kind, jerk. – Michael Buble
Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it. – Emma Watson
I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it’s kind of the law that you love hockey. – Matthew Perry
I grew up watching North American sport – basketball, hockey – so I like it when it’s a little bit more energetic, rowdier, heckling either for you or against you. I think it’s fun to have that in sport. – Milos Raonic
I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don’t always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward. – Emma Watson
The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it. – Michael E. Mann
I never wanted to be an actor as a kid. I wanted to play hockey, like every other kid in Canada. I had a pretty good shot at it until I was 15 and badly injured myself. – Matt Frewer
When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey. – Christian Cota
I started playing street hockey, but there were tennis courts near my house, and it was my father who suggested I try. I don’t really know why. – Milos Raonic
