Age Quote by Jarome Iginla

I remember all the older guys, when I started playing, telling me how fast it all goes by. I remember being an 18-year-old and…

— Joe Thornton

I always wanted to play professional hockey. Every hockey player's dream, no matter at what level or what age, is to play professionally. At…

— Ed Belfour

Growing up, your whole goal and dream is to make the NHL. Once you get there, you kind of have to expand your goals…

— Brad Marchand

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player.…

— Mario Lemieux

I've been playing hockey since I was five years old. It's a part of my life.

— Guy Lafleur

I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.

— Bob Dylan

As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the NHL, but…

— Ron Francis

I actually played hockey my whole life, all the way up until ninth grade.

— Rob Gronkowski

I played hockey until I was 13 or 14 years old.

— Kevin Owens

I played hockey my whole life until my ambition outstripped my ability, which happens to most Canadians around 15 or 16 years old.

— Jason Priestley

You can't wish that you were a normal kid if your dream is to play in the NHL. You've got to do whatever you…

— Auston Matthews

I've been playing hockey since I was two-and-a-half, three years old.

— P.K. Subban