I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

— Pierre Trudeau

I'm not a freak show. I'm a hockey player.

— Zdeno Chara

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

— Herb Brooks

Confidence is something I hope to instill in my son, Taylor, who is studying classical civilisation at Exeter University and is a brilliant hockey…

— Robson Green

I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey…

— Barry Blitt

I have six brothers and one sister. I grew up playing ice hockey, a total tomboy, and that’s what I thought I was going…

— Nicola Peltz

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

— Mario Lemieux

“The biggest differentiator between a studio that creates a really high-quality game and a studio that doesn’t isn’t the quality of the team,” said…

— Jason Schreier

To me, a hockey player has to be every sport rolled into one: ice skater, baseball player, football player, etc. It's just incredible to…

— Vinnie Paul

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something…

— Michael J. Fox

We're not only hockey players. A lot of guys have families and girlfriends. You can't just think about hockey 24-7.

— Mike Comrie

The great thing about hockey players is that they are able to separate the on-ice from the off-ice and not let the latter distract…

— Stu Grimson

It's in my blood to be an athlete, to be a hockey player.

— Jack Hughes

I was a rugby player, I was a hockey player. You know, I just love to challenge myself, and I love to compete.

— Jason Priestley

“That's like being a hockey player born on January I.”

— Malcolm Gladwell