I've been playing hockey since I was two-and-a-half, three…

That's the fun part about your playing career is that everyone knows your first and foremost responsibility, and that's playing hockey, but whenever you…

— P.K. Subban

Playing goal is like being shot at.

— Jacques Plante

I started playing hockey late and it was unclear until the very last moment if I was talented or not. But it turned out…

— Alexander Ovechkin

I think the game has gotten better. (The two-ref system) keeps players from taking cheap shots behind the play. I never thought I'd like…

— Brian Skrudland

I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football.

— Gary Bettman

Playing hockey, there were a lot of guys bigger than me, so I knew I was going to get hit and have to deal…

— Mike Weir

Women are playing [hockey] because they love it, not because they’re trying to be a woman in a man’s game.

— Cammi Granato

Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud.

— Jimmy Cannon

It's more fun to be playing hockey than doing anything else.

— Connor McDavid

There are more kids playing hockey, and the game has become more diverse from a cultural, ethnic and geographic point of view, but we…

— Mike Quigley

“How did a child of ten find out about a three and a half hundred years old children's show?!”

— Meinos Kaen

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had…

— Adam Oates

All that means is that I'll be 783 years old when I catch Scotty Bowman.

— Kevin Constantine

That's great. I'm 100 years old and people are still interested.

— Grant Fuhr

I was a lifeguard for three years, when I was around 16-years-old. So for my first job, that was awesome, working on the beach.

— Maryse Mizanin