Growing up in Canada, I dated a few ice hockey players.

Very good training to just be a person is growing up in Canada. People say a lot of things about Canada, like that it's…

— Mike Myers

A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.

— Jimmy Cannon

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

— Pierre Trudeau

To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.

— Graydon Carter

I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.

— Ryan Gosling

Even when I was growing up in Canada, I've always been a homebody.

— Andrew Wiggins

I have a good idea of how lucky we are to be growing up in Canada.

— Patrick Chan

Growing up in Canada, I didn't watch football much.

— Sidney Crosby

I loved growing up in Canada. It's a great place to grow up because - well, at least where I grew up - it's…

— Ryan Gosling

We'll have clinics and educational events and conferences to get more and more young players developing as hockey players.

— Gary Bettman

Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be awesome. The…

— Craig Ferguson

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

A NASCAR guy can drop-kick another driver through his car window and it is just considered part of the sport. Hockey players drop their…

— Jemele Hill

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