Quote by Gillian Jacobs

If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're…

— Brett Hull

I still have my teeth. I don't want to lose them at age 61 in some hockey game.

— Jim Flaherty

Hockey is our big sport, and if you fight in hockey you get five minutes for it, that's it. So in Canada, everyone is…

— Jeremy Hotz

If you lose a race or game in hockey, you lose a game. That's it. If you lose a fight you might lose part…

— Georges St-Pierre

Kids don't fight in minor hockey anymore. There's very few fights in junior and college hockey. So growing up, all these guys are not…

— Wayne Gretzky

If I'm not going to play my style of hockey, I might as well not be playing.

— T. J. Oshie

If you play hockey, you might as well win.

— Martin Brodeur

Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them.

— Wayne Gretzky

There's no reason to be involved in the sport if I'm not going to fight to my best ability.

— Johny Hendricks

I can't remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in baseball now…

— Wayne Gretzky

I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.

— Mark Messier

You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable... they've even taken fighting out of the game, so there's no more of…

— Brett Hull